That tension was clear at a legislative drafting session, where Republicans who opposed the legislation sought to scale it back sharply, while also decrying the high pay at many troubled institutions.
A Legislative Discussion Draft issued 7 October 2008 by John Dingell (D MI) and Rick Boucher (D VA) limits its proposed offsets to afforestation and reforestation only.
The legislative draft filled in some details of a plan sketched out for Congress on March 27 by the Pentagon's top civilian Special Operations policy official, Michael A. Sheehan.
Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, proposed such a tax this week as part of his long-awaited legislative draft.
Garran and his fellow staff aimed for a simple style of legislative drafting, a goal enabled by the fact that there was no pre-existing federal legislation on which their work would have to be based.
A legislative proposal drafted by a coalition of business, housing and governmental leaders represents an attempt to make these two needs more compatible.
Although I'm glad to be called, I'm a decidedly B-list policy guy who has never played a big role in the sausage factory of actual legislative drafting and know only a handful of senators personally.
Had this legislation not been rushed through in a day, perhaps the embarrassingly-poor legislative drafting discussed above could have been avoided.
"Sometimes legislators look at our legislation and then go to their legislative drafting shop".
It would keep legislative drafting files under wraps, create a new "deliberative materials" exemption in the open records law that would exempt records at all levels of government, and give the legislature an easy way to hide even more records from disclosure in the future.
