House Journal: Page 1929: Wednesday, April 26, 2000
these kids that. Well, I didn't. Little did I know that our paths would cross and I'd get
to call you my friend. The high point of this year for me has been getting to serve with
Minnette Doderer as she ends such a great career in the legislature.
Mr. Speaker and Mr. Majority Leader, we have a great honor to serve as leaders
here and lead these fine people that are our colleagues through this process. And even
though Representative Rants and I sometimes disagree, for instance, I know that
Representative Rants tends to read Ann Rand and Atlas Shrugged, and I tend to be a
little more partial to John Steinbeck and Cannery Row. I know that because we had a
discussion, we both admitted that Speaker Siegrist's last purchase of music was the
Dixie Chicks while mine was the Moody Blues. I believe that we have a whole lot more
in common and that we agree on much more than we disagree on.
And so as we go out this summer to enjoy the summer and engage in another life,
but also engage in the competitive part of this business that gets very competitive, I'll
try to remember that we do have much more that we agree upon than that we disagree
upon.
I'm shuffling notes now because I've got one more thank you to a special person.
She left me for one week, and Amy, I'm not sure if Amy's here, one of the Pages, helped
me for one week, but Julie Borchers was my Page this year. She's done a great job for
me. I'll bet many of you saw her picture in the Sunday paper two weeks ago when she
represented Iowa at the national FFA conference. I was glad to give her up to let her
pursue that.
So finally Mr. Speaker, I am going to close. You and I have kind of a tradition that
we've kept up with mentioning some lyric in each of our remarks. Tonight I'm just
going to refer back to my latest purchase of the Moody Blues. In their words, I think it's
time for us to go now.
REMARKS BY MAJORITY LEADER RANTS
Majority Leader Rants offered the following remarks:
One hundred and eight days ago I stood before you and said that we would hit the
ground running and challenged Representative Millage to pass a deappropriations bill
in response to the lower than anticipated revenue the state was receiving due to a
sagging ag economy, and have it on the Governor’s desk by the end of the week.
Little did I know about the pot hole waiting in the road right around the bend - the
Governor’s budget. But Representative Millage you met the challenge head on. You
steered clear of the gimmicks and tricks that sunk Iowa deep into debt in the late
eighties. As the last budget bill leaves the chamber, I want to congratulate you all for
sticking to the 99% expenditure limitation law. The legislature didn’t give in to
temptation. It’s always easy to comply with it when revenues are high - this year we
proved its need when revenue were low. We also protect the economic emergency fund
- another piece of our budget reform law that met the test.
Representative Hansen, my friend, your tenacity and commitment to the issue of
children-at-risk and alternative schools paid off. You kept your word on this issue, and
my constituents as well as those of your colleague’s thank you. Our focus on at-risk
© 2000 Cornell College and
League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments about this site or page?
hjourn@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.
Last update: Wed Jun 7 13:35:00 CDT 2000
URL: /DOCS/GA/78GA/Session.2/HJournal/01900/01929.html
jhf