Senate Health and Welfare Chairman Skip Brandt, R-Kooskia, came right out with it when he was about to give his budget recommendations to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee:
"I am gearing up for campaign season, so you may have to gavel me down to shut me up. As a good politician, I'll talk as long as you allow me."
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