House Journal: Page 1908: Thursday, May 1, 2003
ADOPTION OF SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 20
Manternach of Jones asked and received unanimous consent for
the immediate consideration of Senate Concurrent Resolution 20,
a concurrent resolution recognizing Richard and Joyce Lynch, the
first recipients of the Good Neighbor Award presented by the
Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, and moved its
adoption.
The motion prevailed and the resolution was adopted.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGE
Gipp of Winneshiek asked and received unanimous consent that
Senate Concurrent Resolution 20 be immediately messaged to the
Senate.
REMARKS BY THE MAJORITY LEADER
Majority Leader Chuck Gipp offered the following remarks:
Gayle Goble came to me this week asking if I had my speech written. Normally this
is written and inserted by the people in the journal room who record this and it is
published in the House Journal. My promise to Gayle at that time was simply this,
"Gayle I haven't written a speech yet because I don't know how this session is going to
end." How can I write speech on Monday when we have four major issues still hanging
out there for the House to accomplish? The four major issues that we started with in
this session.
I have talked to a number of people outside this lobby, former majority leaders and
speakers and people that have been here in the past. And all of them said, "I've never
been associated or seen a legislative session that was so difficult, with so many big
issues to accomplish, and with all the right people here to do them." It is an amazing
thing that we see in this House chamber year after year and this is my thirteenth year
here. But you know what was unique about this session? The people of Iowa elected a
governor, they elected a Democrat. The same people in Iowa elected the Republicans to
control both the House and the Senate. But the common denominator about that
election is the people that were elected were determined that what we needed to do was
to work together to get something done, and something different done because Iowa is
stagnant and Iowa wasn't growing. With a slow growth state we needed to do
something different. So it was called bold or it was called good a few times this session
and even last night, bold, good. We needed to do something different. We needed
something different so that Iowa wouldn't continue to be an older and older state with
kids like Allison and Barret Gipp, now living in Minnesota, continuing to leave this
state, leaving Iowa with an older and older population. With a population base that
was going to have to be asked to pay more taxes rather than increasing the tax base
that just pays taxes to provide for the services.
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League of Women Voters of Iowa
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