Perhaps this is why many governors are reviewing their state tax policies before their legislative sessions.
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With less than a month of normal legislative sessions left, Mr Uribe is clearly anxious.
In other states wrapping up legislative sessions taxes are up, down, or up and down, depending on the tax.
Public speaking makes him visibly nervous, and fellow council members complain that he keeps himself entertained in legislative sessions by BlackBerrying.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is advancing the president's cap-and-trade carbon initiative with a series of hearings and legislative sessions that have already begun.
"I think people will wait through the first two legislative sessions, but then after that some of this stuff does need to move to the front, " he said.
Mr Barbour and Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, say they will not make up their minds until April, when the current legislative sessions in their states end.
Perhaps a state legislator moratorium on the use of their blackberries, androids, iPhones and iPads until such problems are fixed would serve as a good starting point for upcoming legislative sessions.
Legislative sessions are like games of fiscal musical chairs.
"The reality is, of course, that by the time the Malvo case is tried, the state legislative sessions around the country will have ended, you know, by June of 2003, " Hawkins said.
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With a lot of focus during the first two-thirds of the speech on the future, Obama did leave himself open to criticism that he did not present his agenda for the legislative sessions of 2011 and 2012.
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At the premiere a hauntingly effective hour-long performance legislators were joined in the audience by diplomats, Holocaust survivors, former Spiegelgrund patients and other invited guests in an ornate chamber lined with Ionic columns and used for special legislative sessions.
Earlier on Saturday, long boos greeted the appointment of a new environmental team at the legislative sessions in Beijing, with environment minister Zhou Shengxian being re-elected with the lowest number votes among new ministers, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reports.
The deal struck in closed-door sessions by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders will need to be approved by the full Senate and Assembly.
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