Senator Judith G. Freedman (R-26) today described the 2006 Legislative Session as producing “too much work to be accomplished in too little time.”

“This is the “short session”, a three-month session to complete a limited agenda of work. The legislative committees tried to consider too many bills encompassing too many issues. As a result, many good bills are doomed to die on the calendar when we adjourn at midnight,” said Senator Freedman.

In the last remaining hours leading up to adjournment, Senator Freedman, a member of the Appropriations Committee, said that the good news is the General Assembly did adopt its mid-term biennial budget adjustment package in time, along with accompanying implementing legislation.

“Adopting the budget adjustments is the most important thing we have to do this session year. Since we have a biennial budget in place, it was only necessary to make adjustments – and we did it in a bipartisan fashion. But this session was chock-full of all kinds of bills, more than we could reasonably be expected to handle. The bills we did manage to pass are good bills. The good bills that die on the calendar tonight will be back before us next year,” said Senator Freedman.