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“Any time you have extra money to spend, you’ve got fights,” Sen. Truban said, noting that the assembly also had a budget surplus to divide up.
Sen. Truban said the session was “meaner than a junkyard dog — just about as mean as any session you’ll get.”
Aside from being hard fought, the session was busier than most, with some 1,500 bills going through the process in a month and a half, legislators noted. That included bills introduced in the 1985 session, as well as those carried over from the 1984 session.
“It was a little bit more hectic than I have ( jrienced in the past,” said Sen. Kevin Miller (R-Fauquier/Rappahannock/Culpeper/Page/Rockingham).
“A little more sparks (were) flying than I’m used to.”
“I am black and blue,” Del. Kenneth R. Plum (D-Reston) said Friday. “I’ve never had so many ups and downs.”
As an example, Del. Plum cit ed his bill to prohibit developers from restricting group homes for the mentally retarded. It died by two votes in the House one day, was reconsidered and passed the next day, only to die in a
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