Thursday, July 03, 2003
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In addition to tackling the state budget, the Legislature got other work done during this week's second special session. Among its accomplishments:

• Passage of AB719, mandating large pit, filled with sharp sticks, to be dug in front of Assemblyman Bob Beers' chair

• Unsettling amount of jalapeno poppers consumed in break room

• Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio menacing Republicans with switch cut from birch tree

• Assemblyman Mark Manendo unveils AB69, creating "Interns Gone Wild" day

• Sen. Joe Neal occasionally rousing from 100-year slumber to disagree with everything

• Record high score in Boggle confirmed by Guinness Book of World Records

• Completion of an astoundingly accurate model of Oscar Goodman in a bottle

• Assemblyman Lynn Hettrick successfully undergoes surgery to remove Sen. Dina Titus' hands from around neck

• Gov. Guinn declared state plant