{"id":27069,"date":"2015-10-21T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/lawmakers-plan-hearings-instead-of-mass-briefing\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T03:38:09","slug":"lawmakers-plan-hearings-instead-of-mass-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/lawmakers-plan-hearings-instead-of-mass-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers plan hearings instead of mass briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> House and Senate committees plan to start holding hearings the first day of the special session in place of a mass briefing by Gov. Bill Walker\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>In a release, House Speaker Mike Chenault says he appreciates Walker\u2019s willingness to hold a briefing for the full Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>But he says time has been lost by not having bills to review ahead of the session\u2019s start Saturday and legislative leaders feel more can be accomplished through the legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Kevin Meyer says committees will meet \u201cas soon as we gavel in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Walker spokeswoman had said Walker\u2019s office would hold an hours-long legislative briefing on session agenda items Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Charisse Millett says she hadn\u2019t been invited to anything, and said lawmakers are ready to work on legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 House and Senate committees plan to start holding hearings the first day of the special session in place of a mass briefing by Gov. Bill Walker\u2019s administration. In a release, House Speaker Mike Chenault says he appreciates Walker\u2019s willingness to hold a briefing for the full Legislature. But he says time has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-27069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27069"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}