No, I don’t have any juicy tidbits about the former House speaker and government takings.
Those were the two primary topics of the legislative Republican leaders’ regularly scheduled Tuesday news conference.
- Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger explains here why he and other Republicans want to learn details of the $500,000 loan made from an as-yet-unidentified lobbyist to Jim Black in 2000.
- Switching gears, Berger explains his latest course of action in pushing for Senate debate of a constitutional amendment to limit government’s eminent domain powers.
- House Minority Leader Paul Stam explains why the eminent domain amendment should be scheduled for a vote this year.