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SENATE JOURNAL SJ-1 Monday, January 14, 2013 SENATE JOURNAL SJ-1 Monday, January 14, 2013 – Morning Session 5. Recess to attend Joint Session. Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. Ferrioli in Chair. 6. Reconvene at 2:00 p.m. The following members were present: Baertschiger, Bates, Beyer, Boquist, Burdick, Close, President 7. Appointment of Special Committee on Rules. Courtney, Devlin, Dingfelder, Edwards, Ferrioli, George, Girod, Hansell, Hass, Johnson, Knopp, Kruse, 8. Adopt Permanent Regular Session and Interim Rules Monnes Anderson, Monroe, Olsen, Prozanski, Roblan, of the Senate as recommended by your Special Committee on Rules. Rosenbaum, Shields, Starr, Steiner Hayward, Thomsen, Whitsett, Winters. Colors were posted by 9. Appointment of Regular Session Standing Staff Sergeant Michael Mitchell, Staff Sergeant Jay Committees. Nguyen, Specialist Jeff Cox, and Sergeant Brandon Coffin of the Adjutant General’s Select Honor Color 10. Introduction and First Reading of Senate measures. Guard. The National Anthem was sung by the 11. Adopt a concurrent resolution to set session deadlines Bryanna West, a sophomore at South Salem High and a concurrent resolution to adjourn Senate until School. The Senate pledged allegiance to the flag. February 4, 2013. Invocation by Reverend Dana Worsnop of the Atkinson Memorial Church, Oregon City. “Oregon, Respectfully submitted, My Oregon” sung by fourth graders from Lee Senator Beyer, Chair Senator Close Elementary School, Canby. Senator Shields Edwards moved that a committee of three be The following report by the Committee on appointed by the Chair to serve as a Committee on Credentials was read and adopted on voice vote on Permanent Organization and Order of Business, motion of Monnes Anderson, seconded by seconded by Olsen. Motion carried by voice vote. Baertschiger. The Chair appointed Beyer, Close, and Shields as January 14, 2013 the Committee on Permanent Organization and Order of Business. Presiding Officer: Steiner Hayward moved that a committee of three We, your Committee on Credentials, after inspecting the official Proclamation from the Secretary of State, be appointed by the Chair to serve as a Committee on respectfully submit the following report: Credentials, seconded by Knopp. Motion carried by voice vote. That the following Senators are entitled to sit in this body until the second Monday in January 2015, to wit: The Chair appointed Monnes Anderson, Baertschiger, and Roblan as the Committee on Alan Bates Elizabeth (Betsy) Johnson Lee Beyer Rod Monroe Credentials. Betsy Close Alan Olsen Peter Courtney Floyd Prozanski Senate at ease while committees met. Senate Richard Devlin Bruce Starr reassembled. Chris Edwards Chuck Thomsen Larry George Jackie Winters The following report by the Committee on That the following named Senators were elected on Permanent Organization and Order of Business was November 6, 2012 at the General Election for a term of four read and adopted on voice vote on motion of Beyer, years beginning the second Monday in January, 2013 and are seconded by Close. entitled to sit in this body until the second Monday in January, 2017, to wit: January 14, 2013 Herman Baertschiger Tim Knopp Presiding Officer: Jr. Brian Boquist Jeff Kruse We, your Committee on Permanent Organization and Ginny Burdick Laurie Monnes Anderson Order of Business, respectfully recommend that the Senate Jackie Dingfelder Arnie Roblan proceed to effect permanent organization of the Senate and Ted Ferrioli Diane Rosenbaum that the following orders of business be adopted: Fred Girod Chip Shields Bill Hansell Doug Whitsett 1. Appointment of Committees on Permanent Mark Hass Organization and Order of Business and Credentials. That Elizabeth Steiner Hayward was elected on 2. Adoption of reports of the Committees on Permanent November 6, 2012 at the General Election for a term of two Organization and Order of Business and Credentials. years beginning the second Monday in January, 2013 and is entitled to sit in this body until the second Monday in January, 3. Administering Oath of Office to newly-elected 2015. Senators. Respectfully submitted, 4. Election of Permanent Officers of the Senate and Senator Monnes Anderson, Chair administering Oaths of Office. Senator Baertschiger SJ-2 SENATE JOURNAL Senator Roblan and her two male companions could reach the summit yet again. Paulina and Geovanny Estrada, students at “They talked about drawing straws, but a funny thing Auburn Elementary in Salem, Omar Garcia, a happened. Without her knowing it the two men decided there student at Stayton Elementary, and Isabela Venegas, would be no straws drawn. They would give their remaining a student from Henry Hill Elementary in oxygen to Stacy and her Sherpa and that allowed Stacy Allison Independence, were appointed to escort The to be the first American woman to summit Mt. Everest. Honorable Thomas A. Balmer, Chief Justice of the “In their own way they had all been the right people in the Oregon Supreme Court, to the rostrum. room when the room was a tent on the side of the world’s tallest mountain. Chief Justice Thomas A. Balmer administered the “Recently, Steve Duin, an Oregonian columnist who is oath of office to the newly–elected senators. somewhat controversial, talked about a woman named Jillanna Goble. She’s a Portland woman who literally transformed her Nominations for President of the Senate were room. It is a waiting room at the DHS child welfare office in declared open by unanimous consent at the request of East Portland – a place where families and children whose the Chair. lives have unraveled wait to find solutions. “It was a place Goble thought was cold and unwelcome. Girod nominated Courtney for President of the People went there in pain and, if anything, their pain was Senate. made worse. But she did something about it. She showed up last May with 25 welcome boxes filled with art supplies, snacks, a fresh toothbrush and a flashlight. Dingfelder moved that nominations for President be closed and that a unanimous ballot be cast for “The boxes were a hit and so the church where Goble Courtney. Motion carried by voice vote. Courtney attends started producing and providing them. Other churches joined the effort and now they provide more than welcome elected President of the Senate. boxes. Thirty-seven churches are working to make sure Portland has enough foster care families to meet the needs of The Chair appointed Alexander Torrent and Kate children in crisis. And it all started because Jillanna Goble Westfall, students at Candalaria Elementary School wanted to make a waiting room a welcome place. in Salem, to escort Courtney and family to the “Jillanna was definitely the right person in the room. rostrum. Margie Courtney administered the oath of office to the newly-elected President of the Senate. “I can go on and tell you an emotional story. When this Senate shocked me – with one hour’s notice in 2003, six weeks after I was given the last rights in Salem Hospital – and made Gavel was presented to the newly-elected me President, you made someone else the President Pro Tem. President of the Senate. (President Courtney in He is no longer with us. His name is Lenn Hannon. What you Chair). do not know is that many times during that session when we were tied 15-15 – and most people think that from a Senate President Courtney made the following remarks standpoint it was extraordinary – it was Lenn Hannon, not Peter, who made the give; who found the solution; who found to the Senate. the way to work through the problem. “I struggled with what to say today, because times just “I visited him many times in later years when he was in aren’t good. the hospital as mother nature’s diseases took their toll. As I would enter the room, he could see I was down. He would say “January 15, three years ago, Flight 1549 was over New “Peter, never forget the Senate. Never give up. Just keep going York City and she was in trouble. There were 155 people in back. Keep going back.” that plane and there was no way they could get back, which meant the plane was going to crash. “The right person in the room. “You all know the story. There was a certain individual “Lenn is no longer with us, but Lenn Hannon was the right named Chelsea Burnett Sullenberger III, who was in the person in the room in that 2003 session. cockpit. Somehow he landed that Airbus 320 on the Hudson River and everyone was saved. Not only once, but twice, he “And now to each of us. I really believe this what I’m going walked through the entire length of the plane to make sure to say. everyone was off it. “Does each of us have that kind of credibility with our “Sully was an unpretentious person. He was not colleagues? Do we have the ability to convince others to follow egotistical. His life had always been low key. But Sully was the our lead? right person in the room – in this case, the right person in the “Do we have the courage to put the needs of others above cockpit. our own? Do we have the integrity to put the good of Oregon “So that is what I am left with today. The right person in above our own wants and desires? the room. “Because when it’s crunch time we all want, and must “The Democrats were treated to an extraordinary have, the right person in the room. I sincerely believe in the presentation a few weeks ago by a woman who is a native days and weeks ahead that each of you – yes, each of you – is Oregonian from my Senate district – a graduate of Woodburn going to be called to be that person. In a committee room.
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