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Late-night dispute: committee declares official hearing over after debate about extending testimony
Summary
After hours of testimony, committee chairs and members disagreed about whether the hearing could be extended past the scheduled 12:15 end time. Legal uncertainty prompted chairs to call the official hearing closed and offer to continue informal remarks.
A procedural dispute late in the evening left the Public Health Committee's official hearing record in flux: after members debated whether to vote to extend testimony beyond 12:15 a.m., the chairs announced that the official hearing was over and suggested that informal remarks could continue in another room.
What happened: Multiple members raised points of order about…
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