Senate Journal: Page 1: Monday, January 8, 1996

                               FIRST CALENDAR DAY

                                FIRST SESSION DAY

                                 Senate Chamber

                    Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, January 8, 1996



         Pursuant to chapter two (2), sections two point one (2.1) and two
    point three (2.3), Code of Iowa, the 1996 Regular Session of the
    Seventy-sixth General Assembly convened at 10:05 a.m., and the Senate
    was called to order by President Leonard L. Boswell.

         Prayer was offered by the Reverend Ranny Mann, pastor of the Lamoni
    RLDS Church, Lamoni, Iowa.



                             OPENING REMARKS BY THE

                             PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

         President Boswell addressed the Senate with the following remarks:

         I want to welcome you as we begin the second regular session of the
    76th General Assembly.  I especially want to welcome all the new members
    of our Senate family here today; staff and pages.  I appreciate the
    effort of all the members and staff towards our business in the Senate.
    I look forward to working with all of you.

         There are always many issues facing us each year.  In 1996 the
    gravity of those issues is heightened by the actions being taken in
    Washington, D.C. More and more responsibilities are being sent to the
    state legislatures to decide.  In addition, this is an election year
    which could complicate our business here.  I hope it doesnt.

         It is my hope and goal that we use good Iowa common sense to find
    solutions to the many issues that will come before us this year.  There
    is the old way of governing that meant partisanship and gridlock.  There
    is a new way to govern that seeks common ground and common sense to
    craft productive solutions for our citizens.  I think we should try the
    new way.  Isnt that what the folks back home expect of us?

         We can do it.  We crafted the Budget Reform and Spending Limitation
    Act in 1992, an election year.  Thanks to that legislation, the states
    fiscal house is in order and we have money set aside for a rainy day.
    Now that was old fashioned Iowa common sense at work.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: Senate Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 2)

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