A change is gonna come. Leaders of the Nebraska Legislature want to streamline the process and perhaps change a few rules during the upcoming short session to avoid the mess of last year’s 90-day struggle.
A short recap. An Omaha senator introduced a measure to limit medical care for transgender youth, clearly something that is part of the Republican Party national agenda, but not a Nebraska issue.What resulted was months of filibuster by two other Omaha senators that slowed the Legislature to a near halt.
Opponents of the measure, which ultimately passed, showed up every day to protest loudly in the Rotunda outside the legislative chamber. The last few days were marked by protests in the balcony of the chamber with some protestors throwing feminine hygiene products down from the balcony onto senators below. There were arrests.
