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Think this will be video streamed Monday?

Well said, Charles and others. People need to step back and appreciate the massive responsibility our legislators have. Sure, they have our beloved HB910 and HB380. But they also have bills - thousands of them - related to everything else under the sun: bingo taxes, kindergarten curriculum, border patrol funding, emissions reduction, veterans' services, banking regulation, groundwater management, a TON of education-related bills, firefighter pay, license plates, sales taxes, television recycling, raw milk regulation, ship cargoes, cosmetology licensing, school prayer, stem cell research funding..... you get the picture. And they can't afford the slightest hint of nonchalance: all of these bills are extremely important, and their final decisions can affect the lives of tens of millions of people.

And huge numbers of these bills are supported by groups like us, with web sites urging readers to flood the Capitol offices with thousands of phone calls, letters and emails, day after day.

My hat is off to Charles and to our hard working legislators.