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Legislative Record - Senate, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 LEGISLATIVE RECORD - SENATE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 STATE OF MAINE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE The Following Communication: H.C. 376 SECOND REGULAR SESSION JOURNAL OF THE SENATE STATE OF MAINE CLERK'S OFFICE In Senate Chamber 2 STATE HOUSE STATION Wednesday AUGUSTA, MAINE 04333 May 16, 2012 May 15, 2012 Senate called to order by President Kevin L. Raye of Washington County. The Honorable Joseph G. Carleton, Jr. Secretary of the Senate _________________________________ 3 State House Station Augusta, Maine 04333 Prayer by Senator Margaret M. Craven of Androscoggin County. Dear Secretary Carleton: SENATOR CRAVEN: Thank you Mr. President. Good afternoon. I'm offering a prayer of gratitude this afternoon for the honor of Please be advised that pursuant to House Rule 201.1, (I) the being able to be in front of you and to pray. I have two items to Speaker made the following Committee change effective pray for today. One is that today is our last day for the 2nd immediately. Session. Who knows if God is listening to those kinds of prayers. The second is for members in this Body who have spent the The appointment of Representative Philip A. Curtis of Madison to entire year in public service, doing our very best for our the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology constituents, and especially for members who are termed and was rescinded and Representative Aaron F. Libby of Waterboro may not be coming back to the Body next time. As we all pray in was reappointed to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, our own tradition, I will pray in my tradition. Utilities and Technology. May the blessings of the rain be on you, the soft sweet rain. May it fall upon your spirit so that all the little flowers may spring Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact up and shed their sweetness in your air. May the blessings of the me. great rain be upon you. May they beat upon your spirit and wash it fair and clean and leave their many shining pools where the Sincerely, blue of heaven shines and sometimes a star. May the good earth be soft under you when you rest upon it and may it rest easy over S/Heather J.R. Priest you when at last you lay under it. May it rest so lightly over you Clerk of the House that your soul may be out from under it quickly and up and off and be on its way to God. READ and ORDERED PLACED ON FILE. Dear Lord, give me a few friends who will love me for what I am and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly _________________________________ light of hope. Though I come not with insight of the castle of my dreams, teach me to be thankful for life and for times olden Senate at Ease. memories that are good and sweet and may the evening's twilight find me gently still. Senate called to order by the President. May your day be touched by a bit of Irish luck, brightened by a song in your heart and warmed by the smiles of the people who _________________________________ love you. Amen. ORDERS OF THE DAY _________________________________ Unfinished Business Pledge of Allegiance led by Senator Nichi S. Farnham of Penobscot County. The following matters in the consideration of which the Senate was engaged at the time of Adjournment had preference in the _________________________________ Orders of the Day and continued with such preference until disposed of as provided by Senate Rule 516. Reading of the Journal of Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The Chair laid before the Senate the following Tabled and Later _________________________________ (5/15/12) Assigned matter: Off Record Remarks SENATE REPORT - from the Committee on APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS on Bill "An Act To Authorize a _________________________________ General Fund Bond Issue in the Amount of $50,000,000 To Fund Research and Development" COMMUNICATIONS S.P. 76 L.D. 225 S-2303 LEGISLATIVE RECORD - SENATE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 Report - Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee Senator RECTOR: Thank you Mr. President. Men and women of Amendment "A" (S-569) the Senate, I can't not speak to this bond issue in particular as one of the keys to the future, I think, of growth in the state of Tabled - May 15, 2012, by Senator ROSEN of Hancock Maine. I know that we all, in this Body, want to see an economy that is growing, that's robust, and that provides great Pending - FURTHER CONSIDERATION opportunities for every Maine citizen, particularly for our young people. I know that one of the great concerns is our export of (In Senate, May 15, 2012, Report READ and ACCEPTED.) young people to job opportunities in New England and elsewhere around the country. I know, as the father of one of those READ ONCE. exported young people, I'd like to think that he could return to Maine and have every opportunity provided for a good, well Committee Amendment "A" (S-569) READ. paying job here in Maine, as he has in the Boston area. One of the keys to that growth of our economy is our commitment to THE PRESIDENT: The Chair recognizes the Senator from research and development. Hancock, Senator Rosen. As the co-chair of the Maine Economic Growth Council, I can say with some disappointment that every year, for I believe the Senator ROSEN: Thank you Mr. President. Men and women of last four years or perhaps the last five years, in our Measures of the Senate, just a few brief comments. The bill here is a Growth report we've assigned a red flag to our research and unanimous report out of the Appropriations Committee to put development investment. That's not entirely the fault of the State. forward a General Obligation Bond to replenish the Maine It's not entirely the fault of the current economy. It's not the fault Technology Institute with $20 million. There may be folks who of businesses here in Maine. It is something that we have an would like to speak specifically to this proposal. I just want to opportunity to impact. It's important that we make those take a moment to talk in general terms about what we have been investments in research and development. I know many people doing to help in the Appropriations Committee as it relates to sort of picture test tubes and the esoteric laboratory work that General Obligation Bonds. I want to thank the members of the might go on, but when we're talking about research and Appropriations Committee. When we broke in April we were development here in Maine, in the context that we are through the expecting to adjourn. Everyone, all of us here, makes plans for Maine Technology Institute, one of the things that we're talking the rest of April and the month of May, on what we're going to be about here is the support, the enhancement, and the growth of doing. We've all altered those plans, of course, to make sure that our traditional industries; fishing, farming, forestry, the ship we're here to complete our work. The members of the committee building industry, and all of those things that present opportunities worked through that break. I want to acknowledge that, and I for us to innovate. Eighty percent of the growth of gross domestic want to thank them very much for being here and putting in the product, nationally and internationally, is recognized to come from time necessary to do the work on the budget, the work on this innovation. Innovation comes from research and development bond package, and the work on the bills on the table. We spent expenditures. We, as a Legislature, in 2010 made a commitment some time examining our debt capacity downstairs and to the Science and Technology Action Plan. We adopted that as conducted, what I believe, is a current, up to date, and thorough our plan, unanimously, House and Senate alike. In that plan, we analysis of where we are in terms of our ability to borrow in the made a commitment to a $50 million biennial investment in State of Maine and our ability to accommodate and put out to the research and development. We need to live up to that voters requests for their approval or dismissal of new commitment because as it is now we are investing overall, in the authorizations for General Obligation borrowing. It was the State of Maine, less than 1% of our gross domestic product in determination of all members of the committee that we could, in research and development. The benchmark is a 3% investment fact, put forward a prudent, targeted, and carefully-crafted bond to see a growing economy. We not only don't stack up well in the package. We do, in fact, have the capacity in the $100 million United States, we don't stack up well in New England. We don't range, which is what we're looking at here. We have a $95.7 even stack up well with our competitive small rural, poor states million package, or a $99.7 million depending on which way you around the country that are part of the EPSCoR program that go on a couple of these. It's under $100 million. We see that we, specifically drives federal investment when it's matched by state the State of Maine, do believe we have that capacity. We do investment in research and development.
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