Opinion Wyoming’s home speaker promised transparency and then killed 95 bills in the dark – Wyophile

It is obvious that the ultimate right -handed cause of freedom, bases based in the glow of the conquest of the house for the first time, was alarmed to break the status quo.

But how would this be played? All the eyes were directed at the new House speaker Chip Neiman, the Hylett, to see how the Caucut will exercise its power.

Niaman has appointed members of Caucus Freedom to chair many of the Chamber’s standing committees. Each chairman can kill a bill, preventing members from considering a measure so that he dies. This is a lot of force.

The leader of the bigger part has even more power, as the person who gives priority which bills adopted by the committees go to the floor to be considered by the whole chamber. The leader also decides when to stop the process on the last day to hear the bills from the full house. All other accounts in the list die automatically.

But Neiman has the biggest power in the House. The speaker can kill any bill he chooses, whether sponsored by committees or individual legislators by throwing it into his drawer.

This is to describe the speaker’s ability to hold the bills from introduction. Before the session began, Neiman was asked at AARP’s Webinar how he would use the “famous drawer”.

It was an excellent question. Neiman said he would prefer to launch every bill to go to the committee and “see what comes from him. Let there be sunlight. “

This may be planned by Neiman, but the opposite happened. The speaker filled the drawer with 95 bills, much more than each of his two predecessors. The slaughter included 14 bills sponsored by committees, which were previously the easiest to get to the final. This is because legislators spend months of fine -tuning to prepare “first -time” bills.

Neiman killed about 27% of the house load. His predecessor, reporter Albert Soomers, R-Pinedale, sent only about 8% of the house bills under his watch on an early grave.

Neiman’s actions are in a sharp contrast to how Senate President Bo Bitman, R-Ranchester, rules his chamber. Biteman authorized all 197 Senate files and 11 joint resolutions to be introduced and targeted at committees.

Although it was not responsible last year, Caucus Freedom shocked the state when it blocked 13 Committee Bill on the first day of the budget session. The “Coach” “traditional” conservatives of Wyoming could not collect the two -thirds votes needed to introduce bills.

Neiman did not apologize for detaining any of the 95 bills. He told Wyofile last week that the management of the house should be evaluated “the content of what we went through”.

Well, let’s do this and also look at what bills have never been given a chance for “sunlight”.

The Kuk of Freedom planned to bend his muscles by passing the “five and Dime plan” – his five top accounts in the first 10 days.

He fulfilled this goal, but it was not the great achievement that the Caucut claims. Bill 80 at House, “Stop ESG – State Funds Fiducius Duty Act” was a big arrow in its coward, but its profit should come with an asterisk.

Struded by opponents to potential worth of Wyoming up to $ 5 billion by banning investment in companies that say they are based on their decisions on environmental, social and management, the bill has been amended to codify the existing policies of the State Treasurer service S Instead of rejecting a deluded ban on certain investments, the HB 80 was – fortunately for the state government of Wyoming – made it pointless.

Another cause of a cause would expand the state’s school vouchers program by providing “freedom scholarships” available to families, no matter how rich they are.

This “universal school selection bill” bill is obviously unconstitutional as it violates prohibitions on public funds for private education without even limiting it to low -income families to try to slip it through the courts under the cover of measure to combat poverty. If he does it on the Mark Gordon government’s bureau, he may impose it on the veto; If not, it will collect expensive legal accounts when it is challenged.

The Freedom Cuch also made the house take the time for problems with hot buttons such as abortions and limiting LGBTQ rights.

Bill 42, “Regulation of Surgical Abortions” and HB 64, “Requirements for Chemical Aborts-Ulcene” are trying to effectively prohibit or limit women’s access to reproductive health, despite the decision by the State District Court that two abortions adopted through 2023 are non -constitutional.

The group also strives for transsexual individuals. The Bill 32 of the House, the Law on Woman and HB 72, “Protection of the Personal Life of Women in Public Places,” limits access to public facilities to the definitions of a person’s sex at birth. Why is the Kuk of Freedom so obsessed with the treatment of transgender individuals as second -class citizens that this is a priority every session?

Two years ago, the cakus turned its lid when the then speaker of the Sumble House used the speaker’s drawer to kill three Senate Senate Bills he preferred.

One prohibit teaching sexual identity and sexual orientation to K-3 students. Others have banned doctors from performing surgery on children who are not actually found in Wyoming.

The third was a universal bill for the selection of a school for public funding for private and steaming schools, where transmission is not presumably part of the curriculum.

US representative Harriet Hagman, R-Wyoming, has entered the long-distance destruction to blow up Stors. “These are the problems that protect our children,” Hagman writes. “In the congress I am fighting for these problems. I hope Wyoming’s legislation does the same. “

Where is the furore over two bills that Neiman is cramming, who would protect children?

Bill 26, “The safety restrictions of highways, sponsored by the Transport Committee, would improve child safety requirements to save lives and prevent injuries.

Bill 47 at House 47, “The expulsion for possession of a deadly weapon” was sponsored by reporter Steve Harshman, R-Casper. The bill will allow school districts to throw a pistol student for more than one year, the current limit, finding alternative education conditions.

These accounts are more important safety measures than the police for baths.

Caucus Freedom members often describe the bills that sponsor as vital because they were caused by conversations with voters they met during the campaign.

But the cakus ignores bills that deal with two questions about the minds of Republicans, Democrats and Wyoming independent: lack of affordable health care and housing.

Bill 272 at House 272, “Investing in Wyoming Housing”, sponsored by a reporter Trey Sherwood, D-larami, will set up an investment account for a $ 10 million housing investment from the Rainy Legislative Day Fund. Neiman Deep-Sixed The idea, along with two bills for housing committees of corporations and a measure of a joint budget loan committee to increase multi-family apartments.

The speaker also applied a package of budget loan committees from four bills to improve the safety, transparency and justice of the Wyoming play industry.

This tendency to kill commissions bills are particularly disturbing. Is this the beginning of an attempt to cause freedom to eliminate the temporary, where accounts are sent that need additional work? These bills receive a wide range of public contribution to meetings throughout the country, which are important for the hearing of legislators. This is a much better way to appreciate the public interest in reading several people they meet while knocking on the doors.

But the Caucut of Freedom can decide next year that it actually appreciates the work that is done during the intermediate. The bills of the Caucous and Neiman Committee have been buried in the last two years have been made of panels chaired by Wyoming Caucus members.

The outside season, aimed at the budget session in 2026, will be the first time the chairman of Caucus Caucus will lead a large part of the process of commissions. Neiman will not put his manual work in his drawer.

But Neiman has a huge challenge at the budget session next year, which will test his metal: what will it do if the minority of Wyoming Cauk and six Democrats join forces to block a new “five and smoke” from getting the necessary two -thirds voting to vote two -thirds to vote two -thirds for two -thirds vote for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds vote for two -thirds for two -thirds vote for two -thirds for two -thirds vote for two -thirds For two -thirds for a two -third vote for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds vote for two thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds Two -thirds to vote two -thirds for two -thirds for two -thirds to be introduced? Will the Caucum of Freedom even propose such a plan or will it adopt a new strategy to overcome uncomfortable defeat?

Many questions remain as voters decide whether they want to maintain a cause of freedom of power. I hope they regret the experiment.