Hard At Work?
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- March
- 6
Here’s NYPIRG’s analysis of the workload of the state Legislature in February:
Assembly
Total time in session: 15 hours, 3 minutes
Total bills passed: 149*
Average time spent debating each bill: 6 minutes, 4 seconds
Total session days: 8**
Senate
Total time in session: 4 hours, 16 minutes
Total bills passed: 101
Average time spent debating each bill: 2 minutes, 32 seconds*
Total session days: 9
*This does not factor in session time spent passing resolutions, introducing constituents in the audience, confirming appointments, or tending to other miscellaneous business. The actual time spent debating each bill is significantly lower.
**The Assembly did not convene on Super Tuesday, which is why they have one less session day than the Senate.
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on Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 11:15 am by Joseph Spector.
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“Introducing constituents in the audience… and confirming appointments…tending to other miscellaneous business? Give, please, to us a break.
Joe…
Oh yeah…that’s all they do, eh?
What garbage, and you know it! I see my person back in the district nearly every day…and he ain’t goofing off.
What do YOU do all day?
One article written in 8 hours of work. How ridiculous.