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		<title>Reapportionment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once every ten years, after the census results are published, Colorado appoints a Reapportionment Commission to draw new boundaries for House and Senate districts in the state legislature.  The main purpose of this exercise is to equalize the population of the districts to ensure the constitutional imperative of &#8220;one person, one vote.&#8221;  This 11-member commission [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=233&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caylee&#8217;s Law</title>
		<link>http://patsteadman.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/caylees-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Count me as just a little skeptical about proposals to create &#8220;Caylee&#8217;s Law.&#8221;  In the past two weeks I&#8217;ve received over 300 emails asking me to support reactionary legislation to create new felonies for not promptly reporting a missing child or a child&#8217;s death.  There are different versions of the email and none contain draft [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=226&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Balancing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado&#8217;s Constitution requires a balanced budget.  It also places limits and restrictions on growth in the budget and requires voter approval for many fiscal policy changes.  Being a budget writer in our complicated system is quite a challenge. State government is funded through a variety of sources of revenue, although three broad categories describe these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=220&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Budget Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days after the November general election the newly elected legislators that will comprise the 68th General Assembly met to conduct leadership elections.  Senate Democrats voted to retain Sen. Brandon Shaffer as the President of the Senate.  In the House, term limits and a change in partisan control required a new Speaker to be selected.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=210&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saying NO to Ballot Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things that happened in the 2010 election cycle in Colorado was the defeat of every single ballot initiative.  The &#8220;Ugly 3&#8243; went down to crushing defeats, as did the extreme Amendment 62.  The &#8220;bail bond bailout&#8221; measure Prop 102 was also soundly rejected, and 53% of voters turned down Amendment 63.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=203&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Amendment Comes First</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother once showed me a drawing by Elizabeth Layton entitled “Censored” that included Ira Glasser’s famous quote: “The first exception to the First Amendment will not be the last.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=195&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vote NO on Amendment 62</title>
		<link>http://patsteadman.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/vote-no-on-amendment-62/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Divisive and unnecessary constitutional amendments plague the ballot this year.  Amendment 62 certainly falls into this category, and I'll be campaigning against it. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=142&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 1, 2010 – A New Fiscal Year Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[many new laws enacted during the 2010 session take effect on this date<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=167&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some of the New Laws I Passed This Year</title>
		<link>http://patsteadman.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/some-of-the-new-laws-i-passed-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often noted that I carried too many bills in the 2010 legislative session, and many have been the subject of blog posts or press coverage.  This post lists a half dozen random, overlooked but worthwhile bills that I sponsored that are now the law in Colorado.  It&#8217;s been fun to watch the bills being signed into law, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=155&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Criminal Justice Reform Bills Signed</title>
		<link>http://patsteadman.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/criminal-justice-reform-bills-signed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law several important pieces of criminal justice reform legislation, many of which I sponsored in the Senate.  Witnessing his signature on these bills was the culmination of almost a year&#8217;s work.  These changes to state law will have a very real and immediate impact on people&#8217;s lives. Last summer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patsteadman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10735929&amp;post=127&amp;subd=patsteadman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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