Friends for Jeff Spiegelman Welcome to our new subscribers! Also, welcome to July. I hope everyone had a nice 4th of July. -We ended session for the year at the astoundingly reasonable time of 12:30am on July 1st. Obviously, that left a lot of work to do when session resumes in January of 2020. I […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, Our last week of session is here. June 30th this year falls on a Sunday so there will be no update next week. We passed the budget on Thursday of last week. However, we still need to pass the Bond and Grants-in-Aid bills. And, well, whatever else comes our way in […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, Well, that first week of June was fairly exhausting. On Tuesday, my DUI loophole bill will be heard on the House Floor. HB152. You can check out the details here http://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=47466 -Also on Tuesday we have another meeting of the Legislative Oversight Committee, a reception in honor of this year’s Eagle […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman Welcome to June! While that means summer is afoot, it also means the busiest of busy seasons for us in Legislative Hall. We still have to pass the Budget, Bond, and Grants-in-Aid bills in addition to other legislation that will be completed (for good or bad) in the rest of this […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, I hope you had a great Mothers’ Day and you will have a reflective Memorial Day. No update next weekend. -I was contacted by the Blackbird Democrats Club who wanted a bipartisan group of legislators to come talk to them about their concerns with HB129, a bill that would allow school […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, No update next week. Instead, Happy Mommy’s Day! -Congratulations to Jane Brady for being elected the state chair of the Delaware GOP. Congratulations to my former colleague and mentor, Debbie Hudson, for being elected vice-chair. -We are back in session this week. For those of you who have contacted me about […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, I hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter and Passover. We are still out of session in Legislative Hall until next week. -Monday evening is our last Sunset Committee meeting. The Council on Corrections will be doing a presentation. -On Saturday, there are a lot of things going on. It’s Dover Days, […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, No update next week. Have a very happy Passover and Easter. -Another Monday in April, another Monday evening Sunset Committee Meeting. -On Tuesday I am speaking to some business students at Smyrna High School about the challenges of opening up a business in the First State. I am having trouble getting […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, We are back in session this week and there is a lot of work to do. In the next couple of weeks I am going to be releasing a couple of bills including one that closes a DUI loophole, makes EZ-Pass work a little better with the public, and modernizes the […]

Friends for Jeff Spiegelman, For an April Fools joke, I am thinking about calling British Parliament and telling them I am running for Prime Minister. What do you think? -We are currently on a one week break from session while the Bond and Legislative Oversight committees meet. I am on the latter. -Monday afternoon I […]