Wednesday was a day spent mostly in the office. It allowed me to get some blogging done, as well as explore the ncleg website and do more bill summaries for the lobbyists. The website ncleg.com has everything on it to understand and track the state government. On the home page, you can listen to the Senate and House chambers and hear people speaking on all sorts of bills, they even have it archived so you can listen to arguments on recent bills that you are interested in. They have a calendar that shows every bill and amendment that is coming up in the next couple of days or has been done recently The bill pictured above was surprisingly controversial and important during the house session. It attempts to terminate the contract between the government and the people that built the toll roads and maintain them. This seems ok, tolls are annoying, but it would prevent any new roads from being built for a long time. With no specific revenue coming in for the construction of new roads, it would take almost thirty years under the current budget structure to set aside the amount of money necessary to build a new road. With such a sharp increase in population and thus road congestion in NC, we sort of need new roads.