{"id":290,"date":"2008-09-24T17:03:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=290"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:21:43","slug":"rules-suspended-no-public-hearing-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/09\/24\/rules-suspended-no-public-hearing-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules suspended, no public hearing, $$ spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2008\/09\/24\/ap5466555.html\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NH approves $10 million in state heating aid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CONCORD, N.H. &#8211; A plan to add $10 million of state money to help New Hampshire residents heat their homes this winter won easy approval in the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The House approved it Wednesday morning on a 321-12 vote and the Senate followed with an unanimous voice vote.<\/p>\n<p>The plan includes $1.2 million to help insulate and weatherize homes.<\/p>\n<p>The action came in a one-day special session in which legislators also sustained Gov. John Lynch&#8217;s vetoes of two bills.<\/p>\n<p>One would have set up a commission to look at taxing alternative fuel and electric-powered vehicles. The other would have let winning bidders at foreclosure auctions start eviction proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>And now, thanks to Denis Goddard, here is the &#8216;inside&#8217; story:<\/p>\n<p>There was a &#8220;special session&#8221; of the legislature today. Another one!<\/p>\n<p>HB1653-FN-A-L &#8220;relative to providing additional fuel assistance and enhanced weatherization services to income eligible New Hampshire citizens and state matching funds for July &#8211; September 2008 disaster assistance grants, and making an appropriation therefor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Translation: the state that just used Visa to pay off Master Card, just decided to spend an emergency bundle of money.<\/p>\n<p>How much? CITIZEN, NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p>This bill is so critical&#8230; that you are not allowed to see the text!<\/p>\n<p>Bill: http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/legislation\/2008\/HB1653.html<\/p>\n<p>The first order of business was a suspension of rules. Never a good sign&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Docket: http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/live\/hlivebills\/results.asp?hday=9\/24\/2008<\/p>\n<p>Video: http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/housevideo\/sessions\/2008\/2008-09-24am.asx<\/p>\n<p>This abomination passed with only 12 Reps voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>See how this same story was spun by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosters.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080925\/GJOPINION_01\/809249858\/-1\/FOSNEWS\">Fosters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See how the same story was spun by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080925\/NEWS01\/309259882\/-1\/news\">Nashua Telegraph<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=Lynch+signs+heating+aid+bill&#038;articleId=e49e7072-0ec9-4f75-99f0-ea01ea14c0f8\">Union Leader<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2008 Forbes NH approves $10 million in state heating aid CONCORD, N.H. &#8211; A plan to add $10 million of state money to help New Hampshire residents heat their homes this winter won easy approval in the Legislature. The House approved it Wednesday morning on a 321-12 vote and the Senate followed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor-watch","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}