They're very non controversial bills, which is why they come up and we vote for them as a slate like altogether. And the problem is there is a procedure where five legislators, this is unheard of, but Five legislators can sign a piece of paper and kill a local and consent bill that someone has worked on all year. And so I went to the front and I asked for 25 kill pieces of paper and I got five bold legislators that were willing to kill the first 25 … (12:05–12:13)
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