Live from Olympia, it's Saturday night!!

Yes, it's 9:30 Saturday night here at the Capital, and the House Ways and Means committee just finished their 12th straight hour of work -- and they aren't done yet. Twenty-three Senate bills have received a public hearing, and now tired members are working their way through a list of nearly 30 bills up for executive action (which means amending and voting them out of committee.)

Twenty-two hearty members sit on the Ways and Means committee, most of them chairs or ranking members of other committees. Hard to believe on a day like this, but an assignment to "Ways," as it is affectionately called, is highly-coveted by folks on both sides of the aisle.

After all, that's where the money decisions are made!