This is not a legislative report.
The seminars are usually linked to a specific topical legislative procedure and theme.
Price's investment and legislative records are central themes that Democrats plan to pursue in his confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee.
Republican leaders believe they can use the Democrats' national "change" theme against Democratic legislative candidates here in Connecticut.
Party officials plan to emphasize that theme, using the legislative deadlock over the new Homeland Security Department as the metaphor for security issues while trying to remind voters of a trip to Baghdad taken by Democratic representatives who questioned Mr. Bush's motives.
It was a varied lot of legislative proposals, but there was a clear theme.
In an interview after casting his ballots in the legislative and presidential races, he hit a populist theme, using the rough-and-ready diction that Johnson Sirleaf supporters say reveals his lack of education.
If there was a theme to the just-concluded 82nd legislative session it was do more with less, and Representative Daniel Branch, Republican of Dallas and chairman of the House Higher Education Committee, embraced it by attacking the cost of college from multiple angles.
LIKE in the national elections, anger and fear about the economy is the overriding theme for all of the hottest state legislative races in Connecticut this year.
In stump speeches back then, he could wander from point to point with little coherent theme or narrative, bouncing, say, from a digression on legislative procedure to one on constitutional analysis, and taking plenty of time to do it.
