{"id":5091,"date":"2012-02-23T10:41:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2012-02-23T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:41:28","slug":"house-vs-senate-where-to-find-the-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/house-vs-senate-where-to-find-the-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"House vs. Senate: Where to find the tea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that lower level of a bicameral legislature is often populated by out of control yahoos who aren&#8217;t very good lawmakers, while the upper level is more often populated by individuals who seem less willing to totally embarass themselves at every turn?  A great example of this unfolded recently in New Hampshire, with some gun-related legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The house crafted a number of bills related to guns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bill allowing people to carry loaded weapons, including crossbows, in their cars, by redefining what &#8220;loaded gun&#8221; is.<\/li>\n<li>A bill that lets people carry guns on campuses, public sports venues, and the state psychiatric hospital<\/li>\n<li>A bill that allows people to carry concealed firearms without a permit<\/li>\n<li>Two other bills, I don&#8217;t know what they were.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the bills were quickly rejected by the Senate.  Of these bills, Senate President Peter Bragdon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/post\/senate-shoots-down-house-gun-bills\">said<\/a>, \u201cWe spent a grand total of 6 minutes on 5 bills because we want to focus on the issues that are important to the New Hampshire people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Live free or else! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that lower level of a bicameral legislature is often populated by out of control yahoos who aren&#8217;t very good lawmakers, while the upper level is more often populated by individuals who seem less willing to totally embarass themselves at every turn? A great example of this unfolded recently in New Hampshire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/house-vs-senate-where-to-find-the-tea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House vs. Senate: Where to find the tea?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[449,290],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1k7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}