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Speaker yes. Speaker you always do when mr. Keane is asking you questions. Speaker you dont have the right to remain silent. Mr. Bush, one thing thats still somewhat apart of my concerns in doing this, is that the suggestion that there have been a number of things that the commission itself has passed or recommended that bears on this particular matter. Over the course over the last couple of years we have various things and recommended various things, and those have not been incorporated in these proposed changes and the staff has not addressed the fact that perhaps they should be incorporated within these proposed changes. That may have come up youve got it in some respects, referred to in regards to the Public Comment, but could you outline for us what concerns you have about things that you know that we have done because our memories our institutional memories are pretty bad. I have to say that. Speaker one of the things that ....
Commissions acted on in may of 2013 was an amendment to improve contractors from six months to 12 months. That has not been incorporated in this prevision. Also, the commission passed a request for an amendment to be drafted by the staff for reporting and disclosures by Draft Committees. Those are committees designed to draft someone who is not a candidate which arose out of the run ed run campaign. When the commission determined that it did not have jurisdiction, the required disclosures at that time. They passed in november. There was a request from staff to draft an amendment to c fro to cover Draft Committee. Thats now, three years and counting or two years and counting. Im not good at math. Im good at language, but not math. So thats a second one. There is also a decision, this past august, for the commission to take up consideration of banning lobbyist from making con ....
Reporting threshold by committees its not included in here. The commission discussed making it mandatory that the commission the contribution forms specifically state that contractors are not permitted to make contributions. So those are some of the examples of things that were passed by the commission, but which are not included in here. The larger issue beyond those specific things is where the commission has run into a public buzz saw is narrowly [inaudible] how something can be viewed. Like on Draft Committee as an example. Or they cannot act in the case of a commissioner, only on staff or Department Heads and after those narrow views were determined by the commission, there was no subsequent action by the committee to close those loopholes so all the loopholes we saw before continues to exist, year after year after year, although the situation continues. You can take ....
Theres nothing on the agenda thats taken place in the five months since then and theres nothing in here suggesting its going to come up in the future. The issue of reducing reporting threshold by committees its not included in here. The commission discussed making it mandatory that the commission the contribution forms specifically state that contractors are not permitted to make contributions. So those are some of the examples of things that were passed by the commission, but which are not included in here. The larger issue beyond those specific things is where the commission has run into a public buzz saw is narrowly [inaudible] how something can be viewed. Like on Draft Committee as an example. Or they cannot act in the case of a commissioner, only on staff or Department Heads and after those narrow views were determined by the commission, there was no subsequent action ....