{"id":1030,"date":"2009-05-09T22:05:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T02:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:42:56","slug":"not-wasting-valuable-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Not wasting valuable time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess some legislators do understand<\/a> that arguing about settled science is a time sink. How refreshing. From an interview with Rep. John Legg, chairman of the House PreK-12 Policy committee and vice chairman of PreK-12 Appropriations:<\/p>\n

Some of the issues dealing with the evolution bills and the inspirational prayers … I didn’t want to bottle up time, and neither did our committee. In talking with members, it wouldn’t have gone anywhere on the floor, it wouldn’t have gone anywhere in the Senate. And we didn’t want to spend a lot of time, at least in Pre-K-12 Policy debating the issues that had very little merit to pass or even to set up for next year. At least the Mayfield bill dealing with science standards, the McBurney bill dealing with civics and even the Fresen bill dealing with the algebra standards, those are salient dialogue policy issues that we are going to have to grapple with, whether it’s this year or next year. The standards are being raised. … Even President Obama in his March 10 speech said he wanted to do a race to the top. That question is what we wanted to spend our time with. And the inspirational message, the evolution bill, simply didn’t fit in that criteria, at least for our committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess some legislators do understand that arguing about settled science is a time sink. How refreshing. From an interview with Rep. John Legg, chairman of the House PreK-12 Policy committee and vice chairman of PreK-12 Appropriations: Some of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-gC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":487,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=487","url_meta":{"origin":1030,"position":0},"title":"Drama, drama, drama","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tampa Tribune has an article about the proposed creationism bill (\"academic freedom act\") in the state legislature. 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