A Lively Experiment: 2016 Session's Over - What Happened in the Waning Hours

Panel (l-r in photo)
Dyana Koelsch – moderator
RI State Representative Daniel Reilly – (R) – Middletown, Portsmouth
RI State Representative Joe Shekarchi – (D) Warwick
RI State Representative Marvin Abney – Chairman of the House Finance Committee
RI State Representative Brian Newberry – House Minority Leader

Topics

• What came out of the session that Reps are proud of? 
• Biggest disappointment of the session. 
• Investigations into a couple of legislators. 
• Reps opinion on how public receives GA 
• The ethics reform – does it go far enough? 
• Voters will be asked to approve $20M bond for ProvPort. Good or bad idea? 
• Appeared to be added at last minute. 
• Was it and if so, why? 
• Legalization of marijuana. Why didn’t it move forward? 
• Too big of an issue not enough time? 
• MA likely putting it on November ballot. What does that mean for RI?

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