The NC Senate and House convened and recessed several times yesterday, focused on votes to override Governor Bev Perdue’s veto of  the state budget, the Amended Death Penalties bill, removing race in appeals, and the Clean Energy and Economic Security Act—the ‘fracking’ bill. All three vetoes were overridden by the end of the session last night, with Governor Perdue expressing her disappointment over her issues with the Legislature.  
The two houses are set to meet at 11 this morning, but not on any calendar is action on the two bills that would ‘box in’ Boone development for the future, awaiting action in the same house committee. The Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House committee is where Senator Dan Soucek’s bill to end Boone extraterritorial jurisdiction and Representative Jonathan Jordan’s bill that would kill the New River water intake are waiting action, and it met yesterday at 10:30, but did not consider either bill.