Joint Rule 10 was made to be broken, or at least danced around. The biennial deadline for almost all legislative committees to make recommendations on the hundreds of bills put in their tender care arrived on Wednesday, a wonk-a-palooza for Beacon Hill Kremlinologists giddy at the prospect of trying to read the tea leaves and suss out the agenda for the next six months. As rules go, this committee reporting deadline has been one less susceptible to being suspended, or worse, [...]
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