Senate Journal: Page 1: Monday, January 11, 1999

  FIRST CALENDAR DAY
  FIRST SESSION DAY

  Senate Chamber
  Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, January 11, 1999

  Pursuant to chapter two (2), sections two point one (2.1) and
  two point three (2.3), Code of Iowa, the 1999 Regular Session of
  the Seventy-eighth General Assembly convened at 10:09 a.m.,
  and the Senate was called to order by President Kramer.

  Prayer was offered by the Reverend Sam Massey, pastor of
  Westminster Presbyterian Church, Des Moines, Iowa.

  OPENING REMARKS BY THE
  PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

  President Kramer addressed the Senate with the following
  remarks:

  Good Morning . . . We begin another session - it has the feel of the family
  reunion -
  We are glad to be together in this beautiful and historic place, and - we
  are
  presented with a fresh new opportunity to do good.

  What will we do with it?

  What obligations do we have?  What is our duty to those who elected us?  How
  will we approach the issues of our time?

  Perhaps we can learn from some historic words from our Founders, "Public
  opinion is the starting point of popular government, and that opinion must
  be
  Refined by Deliberative Processes."  Alexander Hamilton also said - when
  "the
  interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is their
  representatives' duty to give time and opportunity for more cool and sedate
  reflection."  From time to time I might like to remind us of OUR need to
  "cool and
  sedate" reflection.

  Again, listening to our founders, Thomas Jefferson tells us we share the
  task
  of "refining and enlarging opinion" to represent our constituents at our and
  their
  best.

  Always on the first day - in the first week - when we celebrate tradition,
  protocol, the standards and decorum that make our Chamber and our state
  government prideful and majestic - we agree - our state is magnificent; it
  is

© 1999 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa

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