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Senator Lisa
Brown
Legislative Blog
Jan. 30, 2008
A typical day!
Here is the schedule for Monday, January 21, organized by my staff
and printed out on a "blue card" for me to remind me where to be and
when. The Legislature is formally in session for 60 days this year.
Those days run consecutively according to the Constitution, so we do not
have federal holidays like MLK Jr. day off.
9:00 a.m. Meet with Sen. Jim Kastama and Rep. Hans Dunshee to discuss
their scholarship bill
9:30 a.m. Meet with Sen. Mike Hewitt to discuss bond bills and
homeless bill
10:00 a.m. Meet with Public School Employees from the 3rd District
10:15 a.m. Meet with Tony Lee, Pam Crone and Kim Justice to discuss
the removal of asset limits in public benefit programs
10:45 a.m. Meet with the Washington Student Lobby
11:00 a.m. Meet with Marilyn Watkins of the Family Leave Coalition
11:15 a.m. Meet with the Planned Parenthood Teen Lobby
11:45 a.m. MLK Day Summit and March on Capitol
12:00 p.m. SEIU lobby day lunch
1:00 p.m. Meet with Cathy Mann of Voices and members from Spokane to
discuss affordable housing, children and family services issues
1:45 p.m. Meet with Joe Dear and Liz Medizabal of the state
Investment Board about legislation to recruit and retain state
investment officers
2:00 p.m. Meet with Local 1199 members from the 3rd District
2:15 p.m. Meet with Local 925 members from the 3rd District
2:30 p.m. Meet with staff to discuss next week's schedule
3:00 p.m. Washington Education Association weekly meeting
3:30 p.m. Meet with Mitch Friedman of Conservation Northwest
4:30 p.m. Meet with Gov. Gregoire
5:00 p.m. Storm Event Work Group meeting to review budget and policy
proposals relations to storm damage response, recovery and restoration
Note: As there are phone calls from the media and legislators and
staff dropping by,my day never goes exactly as planned. For example, I
missed the MLK rally and the Storm event work group. A highlight of the
day was the visit from Cathy Mann and Voices members from Spokane. They
are doing great work advocating for themselves and for low income people
in Spokane. We talked about housing and health care costs.
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