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Senate Transportation & Energy
Senate Transportation & Energy confirmed Maria Garcia Berry to the Front Range Passenger Rail District board and moved four bills, with the party-line vote to keep a defunct-but-federally-mandated air pollution panel and Republican Mark Baisley's lone 'no' on a grid-modernization bill supplying the day's only friction.
Key Actions
·Drive Motorcycle Written PermissionPassed
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Notable Quotes
“I'm just wondering what our role is appropriately in directing the PUC to behave in a way that you would think they would just want to do anyway.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Mark Baisley, Marc Catlin, Tony Exum, William Lindstedt, Tom Sullivan, Matt Ball, Lisa Cutter
Excused (2)Kyle Mullica, Byron Pelton
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Marc Catlin, Tony Exum, William Lindstedt, Kyle Mullica, Tom Sullivan, Matt Ball, Lisa Cutter
No (1)Mark Baisley
Excused (1)Byron Pelton
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (5)Tony Exum, William Lindstedt, Kyle Mullica, Tom Sullivan, Matt Ball
No (3)Mark Baisley, Marc Catlin, Byron Pelton
Excused (1)Lisa Cutter
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (8)Mark Baisley, Marc Catlin, Tony Exum, William Lindstedt, Kyle Mullica, Byron Pelton, Tom Sullivan, Matt Ball
Excused (1)Lisa Cutter
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Good afternoon. The Transportation and Energy Committee will get started. Ms. Forbes, please call the roll. Senators Basley. President Catlin. Here. Exum. Good afternoon. Linstadt. Excused. Malika. Here. Elton. Excused. Sullivan. Here. Ball. Excused. And Madam Chair? Present. All right, thank you. For the first item on our agenda today, we're going to have a confirmation hearing for Maria Garcia Berry for the Front Range Passenger Rail district board. If Mr. Pace is here, can you please come up there you of course you're here. And launch us. Since I was here. Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. Sal Pace, General Manager of the Front Range Passenger Rail District. I was here two weeks ago and withstood the very tough questions and input from the committee. And thank you for referring the six other nominees who were here that day. I'm back because we saved the best for last. And Maria Garcia Berry is a nominee from the Governor. As a reminder, this district and our board has a unique set of nomination protocols. A combination of nominees from local MPOs and from government entities, but as well as some nominees from the governor as well. So…
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