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Chaisson says he will file congressional remapping bill for regular session if plan fails now
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Apr 12, 2011 04:32pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune |
| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BATON ROUGE -- Senate President Joel Chaisson II said today that if a congressional redistricting bill fails to make it through the special session, he will push a plan at the regular session that starts April 25.
Chaisson, D-Destrehan, told members of the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs that if a plan cannot be hammered out when the 6 p.m. Wednesday deadline rolls around, he will introduce a congressional remapping plan for debate at the next session, not next year as some of the members of the state's congressional delegation have asked.
"I am filing a bill for the regular session," he told the Senate panel that was squabbling over the last surviving bill on congressional redistricting. "I am not going to quit. We are not going to wait until next year."
Over the weekend, five members of the state's seven-member congressional delegation sent a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal asking him to get lawmakers to call off any attempts to redraw congressional lines this year. |
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