{"id":3447,"date":"2012-01-04T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2012-01-11T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:22:09","slug":"were-liveblogging-the-legislative-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/04\/were-liveblogging-the-legislative-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Liveblogging the Legislative Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday morning <em>The Associated Press<\/em> is hosting a legislative preview event in advance of the session that starts January 9th.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be there liveblogging and you&#8217;ll be able to join the conversation at our homepage.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the agenda:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>9:00 a.m.<\/strong> Gov. C.L. \u201cButch\u201d Otter<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 a.m.<\/strong> Senate President <a title=\"Meet Idaho Senate President Pro-Tem Brent\u00a0Hill\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/brent-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Hill<\/a>, (R-Rexburg); House Speaker <a title=\"Meet Idaho Speaker of the House Lawerence Denney\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/lawerence-denney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawerence Denney<\/a>, (R-Midvale); House Minority Leader John Rusche, (D-Lewiston) and Senate Minority Leader Edgar Malepaei (D-Pocatello) will discuss the upcoming session, with the budget likely to dominate the conversation.\u00a0 Moderated by AP Statehouse reporter John Miller.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00 a.m.<\/strong> To Exchange or Not to Exchange.\u00a0 The debate over Idaho\u2019s acceptance of federal money to develop a state <a title=\"Health Insurance Exchange Will Be A Major Debate in Upcoming Session\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/26\/health-insurance-exchange-will-be-a-major-debate-in-upcoming-session\/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance exchange<\/a> is nothing new.\u00a0 Lawmakers debated for hours last year on a small federal grant to fund preliminary work on developing an exchange, a central component of the federal health care overhaul. Since then, Idaho has been awarded $30 million for development, and Gov. Otter has agreed to accept it, but Republican lawmakers have other ideas. Panelists include Rep. Vito Barbieri, (R-Dalton Gardens); Bill Deal, director of the Idaho Department of Insurance; and Alex LaBeau, president of the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry.\u00a0 Moderated by AP Statehouse reporter John Miller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday morning The Associated Press is hosting a legislative preview event in advance of the session that starts January 9th.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be there liveblogging and you&#8217;ll be able to join the conversation at our homepage. Here&#8217;s the agenda: 9:00 a.m. Gov. C.L. \u201cButch\u201d Otter 10:00 a.m. Senate President Brent Hill, (R-Rexburg); House Speaker Lawerence Denney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121],"tags":[235],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}