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• The last two weeks of Session are when the revenue estimates are updated and all of the bills which require appropriations will pass or fail. We are at the proverbial tipping point on school funding.  Now is the time to stop shifting that balance towards the local taxpayer and for the state to pick up a greater share of its responsibility.
• We have had Cracker Barrel sessions in Aberdeen, Lake Norden, Clark, and Redfield with a couple more coming to Aberdeen in the next two weeks.  Please come to one of these or be sure to call, email, or mail me any questions, concerns, or ideas that you may have.   
• We worked late into the night on Wednesday as we reached an important deadline.  It is called "cross-over day" as we had to have all the bills out of the house where they began their legislative journey and moved over to the other house.  Before a bill can become law it has to pass in both houses in the exact same form.  If that doesn't happen we will kill that bill or have a conference committee where we will try to work out a compromise bill.  This year we had 492 bills introduced and we are down to about half of those now.  Every bill has a day in committee and some

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