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delegate. “We don’t really have much of a prayer down there in our first year,” he said, reading from an Assembly handbook that states all freshmen delegates are “expected to sit quietly in the rear of the room,” leaving floor speeches “to those who have something to say and know what they’re talking about.” A delegate gains “more clout" after he's served four years or so, according to Beard.
He told the audience that the only dangerous part of the session is the last day when bills are sent out on the floor in a rush without any accompanying information supplied to the delegates. As there is not enough time to go over the bills properly, some poor pieces of legislation may be passed, he said. “I guarantee that won’t happen during the rest of the session," Beard maintained.
He reported that 63 finance bills—"not bad enough to kill and not good enough to pass"—had been carried over from the last General Assembly session. Beard said he’d been meeting regularly with other members of the committee to finish reviewing the left-over legislation by the January 15 deadline. Only about ten of the bills, he predicted, would make it back before the Assembly in the next session.
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