Jane:

[I am posting this to the Iowa-Topics LISTServ, Jane, as I assume others are
curious, too, about how the Special Session will operate.)

I received your telephone message after I got home.

The Special Session takes up at 10:00 am, Tuesday, June 19.

The House, as you know, will be meeting at the Historical Building
Auditorium. So, there will not be in-coming telephones on-site. People can
leave messages at the normal House switchboard number, 319/351-3221, and
they will be transported to the Historical Building. But...there will be no
Pages, and no assigned seat numbers, so that will greatly slow down how the
members receive them...probably not very reliable.

There will not be anyplace for them to have there laptops, so email won¹t
work well either. I assume some of them will make some effort to access from
other locations, but would be a very limited and unreliable way to make
contact.

Lobbyists and the public may have access to the final 2-3 rows of seats in
the Historical Building Auditorium, and will have access to the Projection
Room at the rear of the Auditorium.

Roll call votes will be by voice, divisions (not a roll-call) will be by
standing counts. Very slow, all in all.

All of this makes public contact problematic with the House members, and not
very ³open².

The Senate will operate normally, in the Senate Chamber, although they will
not have Pages, and I do not know if they will have laptop access. I presume
they will have laptops.

To summarize, the deals are basically done at this point, and the votes
mostly counted. Public input will be minimal, now. It should not last more
than 48 hours. (If that, we will see.)

Lyle

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Lyle Krewson
6403 Aurora Avenue #3
Des Moines, IA 50322-2862

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