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Public testifies en masse against bill to end bipartisan composition of regs review committee
Summary
Dozens of public commenters and a former regs-review co-chair urged the Government Administration and Elections Committee to reject HB 5554, saying it would dismantle the committee’s long-standing 50/50 structure and hand single-party control to the majority.
Several dozen residents and one former committee co-chair told the Government Administration and Elections Committee on April 5 that HB 5554, which would replace an equal-party composition on the Regulations Review Committee with proportional membership, should be rejected.
Maria McNamara of West Hartford, who said she represents "more than half of the 550 citizens whose voices you actively suppressed last week," testified that changing the committee’s makeup is not a technical adjustment but a move to "dismantle the checks…
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