House calendar for the 29th showing abortion bill that was taken off at 2pm
Free food!
5/29/19
Today was a slow day, with the main event being session. Very few committees are meeting, meaning there aren’t many bills to vote on. The big news is that the Senate released their budget, resulting in lots of hours of discussions. Another hot topic is the abortion bill. In the simplest terms the abortion bills purpose is to make it even harder to commit already illegal acts pertaining to abortion. The Governor vetoed the bill, and 3/5 of senate already over-rid the veto. Currently everyone is waiting on the house to vote. The majority of the house does not want to override because it is mainly democratic and agrees with Governor Coopers veto. Almost every day the bill shows up on the house calendar and is promptly taken off because the republicans are waiting for enough democrats to be gone so that they gave get a 3/5 majority agreement vote to override the veto in the house.I had the opportunity to meet with Dennis who works for Representative Grange. We had a nice discussion about how even though the Representatives were of different parties, they could interact and agree over the party line. One common interest was the armed forces. Dennis mentioned jokingly how the NC general assembly was different than congress because they didn’t use ear marks or pork barrels which made me thankful for what I’ve learned in gov class this year!The biggest event of the day was free lunch given to all who worked at the General Assembly. 3 food trucks came out and gave away free chicken and waffles, sno-cones, tater tots, cubans, and soda. I met a very nice lady who works at the front desk doing tours, who reminded me what a great opportunity this is. I definitely agree with her! It was a nice, low key day, with lots of fun times spent with Chris and Lee.