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An Exercise in Courage and Persistence.
New Hampshire State Representative Tom Rice walked, slowly, into the committee room. He had just had back surgery a week and a half earlier and was ordered by his doctor to stay home for four weeks. "Don't go anywhere," he was told. Stay home for four weeks.
Not Tom Rice. Not when there was a vote on a parental notice bill in his Judiciary Committee. It was March 18. He was two weeks shy of his 80th birthday. He could not stand for any length of time. He could not sit in the committee chairs for any length of time. He could not drive himself to the committee voting session. He was in pain and needed assistance to go anywhere.
All he asked for was a ride in a comfortable car, big enough for him to get in and out of without hurting himself. He needed the car to wait for him so he could be taken home as quickly as possible.
The Judiciary Committee has 21 members. Two of them were out for the day. We needed a 10 to 9 vote to pass the bill out of committee.
They, the side that insists parents do not have a right to counsel their own minor daughters who have scheduled an abortion, were secure in their hearts. They had nine.
A 9 to 9 tie would mean the bill would get an "unfavorable recommendation" from the committee. Everybody knew that no bill with an unfavorable recommendation from the Judiciary Committee had passed the full New Hampshire House of Representatives in recent memory.
Without Tom Rice, we had nine.
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Source: HighBeam Research, An Exercise in Courage and Persistence.