Letters March 31

Losing track

The Washington State legislature is again into a special session.

This was supposed to be a 60 day session.

Last year was supposed to be a 90 day session.

According to the newspaper, this is the sixth legislative session in seven that has been extended into special session.

I believe our representatives consider this to be the norm.

They appear to spend the majority of their time writing hundreds of various bills early in the session, spending hundreds of hours in committee hearings discussing these bills (many of which never move forward out of committee), saving the most importa...