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It was great to be home last weekend during our mid-session break. I saw lots of my constituents at the question-and-answer session in Polson last Monday. Great points were brought out about workman's comp reform, tort reform on some lawsuits and defensive medicine reform.
There was talk of how we’re working to coordinate the duplication of the MEPA laws. We are waiting for Washington to hopefully make a decision on de-listing of wolves so that Montana can utilize a plan to control them. The best plan of course is to treat the wolf as the predator that it is.
Education may be affected by a bill from Sen. Llew Jones of Conrad in order to establish structurally sound funding. Also higher education funding is going through the appropriation process. Hopefully House Bill 2 – the Legislature’s comprehensive two-year budgeting bill – will be coming out of the Appropriations Committee soon so we can see where we are in terms of all the budget areas.
I want to thank all the Charlo High School students and Mr. Thompson for coming on Monday to observe us here at the Capitol. All of the Lake County Delegation really enjoyed them.
You can reach me at: dansalomon12@gmail.com.
