At this point, after driving well past midnight on March 16th on the worst road conditions I have ever experienced, even I don't find much humor in the "comparing-winter-to-legislation" metaphor. But at this point, with my diminished mental capacity borne of legislative overload, it's all I've got.
But it remains accurate. After three weeks with no meetings of the Senate Education Committee, we now will see five meeting in seven days. Bills spring to life from nowhere. Every day is an adventure and, as a lobbyist, one is often relegated to simply watching from the sidelines the latest legislative resurrection, and then going into damage control mode. It's not very enjoyable.
The good news is that occasionally, in the midst of the maelstrom, a few really helpful bills manage to pass. That is what we hope for at this point. Perhaps, in a few days, we'll be able to sort through the wreckage of the 2014 session, and find a few miracles of good government somewhere in the pile.