One last chance for Public Testimony!
House Environment & Energy Committee Interim Planning Session
While most of the attention at 8 am tomorrow (2/28) will be in the two hearings for the initiatives, there is a different hearing that I’d like to encourage you to attend: The House Environment and Energy Committee is having an interim planning meeting.
Interestingly, the public is invited to testify during this planning meeting.
I testified in person during a planning session last year, and got a significant amount of time to make my remarks. I addressed about 8 different areas of concern that day, to the obvious amusement of the chair, and visible enjoyment of the minority party.
Tomorrow, we can use THIS planning hearing to press for the passage of Initiative 2117 Concerning carbon tax credit trading.
Testify in person for this Initiative!
Because this is a planning hearing, it’s going to be fairly unstructured. I urge you register for in person testimony, and prepare 1-2 minutes of remarks on the urgent need to bring the People’s Initiative to the floor for a vote this session.
Discuss the negative impacts the CCA has had on your life… increased fuel prices, transportation prices driving food inflation even higher, difficulty making ends meet, higher utilities prices… you know how this bill has impacted your life.
You can also testify in Writing. Take two minutes to do that if you can’t attend tomorrow’s hearing at 8am.
Let’s SURPRISE the committee 🥳 and come out strong in support of THIS initiative!
When you testify, be sure to address the chair and ranking member (if they are present):
“Good Morning Chair Doglio, Ranking Member Dye, thank for the opportunity to testify before you. Today I want to urge you to bring the People’s Initiative 2117 to the floor for a vote this session. Here’s why…”
LAST CHANCE TO TESTIFY ON THE INITIATIVES
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You still have time to testify PRO for the parental notification initiative and the police pursuit initiative. Click on the image to jump to Let’s Go Washington’s page:
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Nancy, again thank-you for all of your hard work, and I'm glad to have discovered this resource. You had stated: "increased fuel prices, transportation prices driving food inflation even higher, difficulty making ends meet, higher utilities prices…" (agreed btw) What I have not heard anyone ask (or any variation thereof) of those that support the CCA, is "The goal of the CCA is to address 'climate change,' yes?, therefore as a result of confiscating monetary resources from your constituents at gunpoint, the CCA has now reversed, stopped, influenced, climate change (whatever in the h*** that means)--how? ...and when will those scientifically obtained results be published? Certainly there is hard data to support the transfer of wealth from the Citizens to the Government is somehow changing the climate, yes? We're waiting. (on pins and needles I might add) Has this been asked, and I missed it? Thank-you! PS you notice how even if 'they' were having an effect on climate, that would in effect be "changing" it--which they vehemently oppose, so logic would dictate they should do nothing. Hence one more example of what I have been saying for many years: "Shallow Thinking Alert, a Leftist is speaking."--an obligatory chyron. J. Chris Bayman