Rural Senator Filibusters tel-com bill for Animal ID legislation

Rural Senator Filibusters tel-com bill for Animal ID legislation

Date: April 28, 2008
By: Reed Erickson
State Capitol Bureau

Intro: An effort to provide partial deregulation of phone rates ran into a rural fillibuster over dead birds.

Reed Erickson Reports from the Senate Floor

Reed Erickson Reports from the Floor of the Missouri Senate

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OutCue: SOC A Telephone deregulation bill wasn't up for debate on the Senate Floor for long before it was DeRailed by Dead Chicks. The Dead Chick filibuster... raised by Rural Missouri Senator Chuck Purgason and Dan Clemens.

Actuality: CHICKFIL.WAV

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Description: While I've got you here, I had a hatch this weekend and every one of them died.

I'm sorry that is one Peril of the Bird Business.

The Dead Chick filibuster over the telephone bill was over yet another unrelated issue. It was an effort to force the house to adopt a bill that bans expanded mandatory animal livestock identification systems. In the Missouri Senate, Reed Erickson, KMOX News.

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