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Another Twitter question answered
Here’s another question with the answer revealed to a twitter question:
Question:
There was an initiative a few years ago for Nebraska to sell Cuban Cigars. Can I have references to what happened to this initiative please? Who sponsored it and what is the name of the bill?
Answer:
Here are the steps I took to answer the question.
1. I searched the Omaha World Herald online and located an article from January 12th 2006 indicating that Senator Pam Brown introduced LB 1034 which stated … “under Legislative Bill 1034, the state could accept Cuban tobacco or tobacco products — such as those highly prized Cuban cigars — in payment for agricultural or medical products sold to that island nation.”
2. I searched the site below for past legislation to find the text of the bill from the 99th Legislature: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/QS/session.php?mode=adv_search which I located here: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/99/PDF/Intro/LB1034.pdf
3. I searched the 2006 Legislative Journal for the voting record and determined this bill was indefinitely postponed by the Agriculture Committee: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Journal/2006/2006journal.pdf
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Good job, Lisa. Not a question, just a thought: don’t we have some kind of national embargo on cuban imports. If so, no matter what the legislature wanted to do, it couldn’t. Perhaps I am misinformed. They surely wouldn’t have spent as much time on the legilsative issue had that been the case.