Some bills really have a learning curve, and this is one of them.

It's not a huge agenda. It is fairly well focused in some limited areas.

I think the Legislature recognized that it had to do something with levee boards, and I think they kind of left the other out there to dry. I think there's a lot of support for those things, but I just don't think there's any enthusiasm inside of the Legislature.

She is talking about keeping those cuts. It's a smaller state financially and population-wise for some time.

I think in a lot of ways this is very typical of what happens in this type of session. It's just the nature of things that big, important pieces of legislation always go down to the wire, and there are several of those types of things in this session.

It seems like it's more technical pieces of reform. We are a long way from the end, and we've still got issues to address that this panel didn't address.