When you have your case won, sit down and shut up.

My first bill is coming to the House floor next week.

The day after it was heard in the Judiciary Committee, we gave a unanimous favorable report to my legislation creating programs for survivors of homicide victims.

No amendments.  No negative votes.

“This time it didn’t take seven years,” as it did to repeal the death penalty, I wrote one of the leaders of that effort.

Should we count our votes on the House floor?  Should we prep a Republican member to speak on behalf of the bill?

No.

I take very few things for granted.

In this instance, however, you don’t draw attention to a bill that’s going to pass.