Thursday, April 26, 2007

Civil Rights Followup

Civil Rights Followup

Coverage all over this morning:

  • Register has the rollcall in a sidebar and a description of the rare "lock down the House" move. Three GOP absences: in addition to public supporter Gipp, Lance Horbach and Dave Heaton were gone. The only missing Dem was Ray Zirkelbach in Iraq.

    An earlier article mentioned a four hour Democratic caucus yesterday morning, but not clear whether that was about this bill or all the other stuff on the finals week schedule.

  • The Underrated One has an overview. Rants is quoted saying "I don't break arms," but that leaves the door open for kneecaps.

  • Gazette discusses Pat Murphy's math...
    ``I thought it was conceivable that we would have 49 or 50 votes,'' Murphy said. ``I thought we might have as many as 52 or 53. I never expected to see 59 on the board. I just didn't.''

    ...and Chris Rants' grammar:
    House Minority Leader Christopher Rants, R-Sioux City, was one of those who voted against the bill despite offering the amendment to redefine gender identity by replacing ``appearance, expression or behavior'' with ``gender-related identity of a person, regardless of the person's assigned sex at birth.''

    ``Those tend to be more verbs than adjectives,'' he said. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

  • Essential Estrogen looks at the aisle-crossing votes, particularly the female legislators.
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