James Kaufman
15:58 - 16:42
“I don't know what the effort might be to make it unpalatable to people to vote for it, the old poison pill idea. I don't know how far we might go down that road if it comes to the floor, but I think the best thing we can do is get it to the floor and do it in the light of day, just like we should have been having committee meetings to get the final bill in shape and then send it to the floor. But instead, we've kind of collapsed into this closed-door caucus meetings rather than the committee meetings and the process that we should should be following.”
- Speaker
- James Kaufman
- Timestamp
- 15:58 – 16:42
- Transcript
- Alaska Legislature: SMIN-20260617-1630
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- Alaska News
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- Alaska
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From the transcript
I don't know what the effort might be to make it unpalatable to people to vote for it, the old poison pill idea. I don't know how far we might go down that road if it comes to the floor, but I think the best thing we can do is get it to the floor and do it in the light of day, just like we should have been having committee meetings to get the final bill in shape and then send it to the floor. But instead, we've kind of collapsed into this closed-door caucus meetings rather than the committee meetings and the process that we should should be following. So let's get it back on process. Let's have open meetings and let's get the thing to the floor, and then it can live and die on its own merits, which is what I propose for this piece of legislation the whole time.
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