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In the end, ensuring healthy, evidence-based school hours is a matter of protecting student health, safety, and equity, said Dr. Irena Keller, an adjunct professor of child and adolescent development at San Jose State University and co-chair of Start School Later California, which helped develop the bill.
So Democratic leaders, eager to make good on a promise after taking control of Congress, worked behind closed doors to develop the bill that was passed in both chambers.
Not to mention, it's also wasted resources and stifled critical medical research". Justin Strekal, Policy Director for the nonprofit marijuana reform group NORML, which helped develop the bill, commented in a statement, "With the introduction of [The STATES Act], the movement to end the federal government's failed policy of cannabis criminalization has truly become a bipartisan effort.
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But the Democrats who spent months working with Republicans in developing the bill expressed no willingness for protracted negotiations.
Republicans, who had no role in developing the bill, denounced it as a blueprint for a vast increase in federal power and spending.
Representative Deborah Pryce of Ohio, who heads the Republicans' group developing the bill, said the measure would also offer inducements to states to withdraw the driver's licenses of teen-agers caught buying or possessing cigarettes.
"The significant thing about this legislation," said Jim Kessler, policy director for Americans for Gun Safety, which worked with lawmakers in developing the bill, "is that it explodes the myth that nothing can be achieved on guns in Congress".
"We believe it comes too late in the process, once the action has already commenced," said Gaurav Vasisht, an assistant counsel to the governor who was involved in developing the bill, which Governor Paterson is expected to sign into law this summer.
Rowland said he developed the bill after one constituent approached him about a U.S. Senate candidate.
As chairman of the Select Revenue Measures subcommittee, he had a hand in developing the bill's financing plan.
Gardner and Warren, both supporters of marijuana legalization by states, developed the bill in response to Sessions' action.
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