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Denney sits on ‘ham and eggs’ bill

Floor sessions in the House and Senate are getting longer as the end of the legislative session approaches; here, House members slog through another one on Wednesday. (Betsy Russell)
Floor sessions in the House and Senate are getting longer as the end of the legislative session approaches; here, House members slog through another one on Wednesday. (Betsy Russell)

Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Sen. Tim Corder's push to revamp laws governing big swine and poultry farms has been called the "ham and eggs bill." And its goose is now cooked: The measure, SB 1411a, won't get a hearing in the House, Speaker Lawerence Denney said Wednesday; he parked it in the House Ways & Means Committee. Its future looked shaky in the Senate Tuesday despite its 24-11 passage, as three members of leadership opposed it. Denney says representatives raised so many concerns, there's not enough time to address them before the 2010 session ends, possibly next week. Corder, a Mountain Home Republican, was concerned poultry producers will relocate to Idaho as states like California pass tough animal-cruelty laws. He wanted to be ready if they do. Already, there's a new facility in Burley that hatches million of hens. And a proposed broiler chicken plant there is aiming to have 4 million birds.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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