Rep. Max Black, R-Boise, posed a hypothetical: What if Idaho's dairymen were upset about an issue – laws, prices, or something else, and decided to protest. “Could they back up their truck and unload 100 Holsteins” onto Capitol Mall property? Rep. Scott Bedke responded, “That would be inappropriate in my opinion – it would be completely inappropriate.” But he said he thought “if they have enough gall, I guess, for want of a better term … chutzpah or something like that, they could go in.”

Now, Rep. Bert Stevenson has moved to pass the bill to the full House with a recommendation that it “do pass.” Rep. Elaine Smith proposed a substitute motion to send the bill to the amending order to remove the emergency clause. Rep. Phylis King offered a motion backing additional amendments, including more notice.

Rep. Janice McGeachin, R-Idaho Falls, spoke in support of Smith's substitute motion. “I am not opposed to clarifying our state policy on this issue,” she said. But she said the amendments described by Smith and King would “make the bill a better bill.” Said McGeachin, “People in this movement have some legitimate concerns about what is happening in America. It's not a Democratic issue, it's not a Republican issue, it's an American issue. … Crony capitalism is a big problem in our country.”