La. House joins in veto session ‘no’
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The House has agreed with the Senate that a veto session is unnecessary, House officials reported Tuesday.
But the House vote didn’t make any difference.
The Senate voted overwhelming more than a week ago to cancel the session that would have started at noon Aug. 2. It only takes one chamber to stop it.
Thirty-six of 38 sitting senators nixed the idea of a session to try to undo some of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s vetoes of legislation and programs they pushed.
State Sens. Yvonne Dorsey, D-Baton Rouge, and Sen. Derrick Shepherd, D-Marrero, did not return ballots.
By the time Monday’s deadline for voting came, the House had agreed but with only 68 ballots cast out of 104 sitting lawmakers.
House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Terrytown, said nothing should be read into the fact that 36 representatives didn’t vote to cancel the veto session.
“The Senate took all the suspense out of a potential veto session by the time the House members started getting their ballots,” Tucker said.
Tucker added he is sure some representatives wanted a veto session because of actions Jindal took killing their legislation and projects. “But I think overall to my knowledge there was no organized protest,” he said.
But the House vote didn’t make any difference.
The Senate voted overwhelming more than a week ago to cancel the session that would have started at noon Aug. 2. It only takes one chamber to stop it.
Thirty-six of 38 sitting senators nixed the idea of a session to try to undo some of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s vetoes of legislation and programs they pushed.
State Sens. Yvonne Dorsey, D-Baton Rouge, and Sen. Derrick Shepherd, D-Marrero, did not return ballots.
By the time Monday’s deadline for voting came, the House had agreed but with only 68 ballots cast out of 104 sitting lawmakers.
House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Terrytown, said nothing should be read into the fact that 36 representatives didn’t vote to cancel the veto session.
“The Senate took all the suspense out of a potential veto session by the time the House members started getting their ballots,” Tucker said.
Tucker added he is sure some representatives wanted a veto session because of actions Jindal took killing their legislation and projects. “But I think overall to my knowledge there was no organized protest,” he said.
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