It’s a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill.
Many years ago I left the tranquility of Union Parish and spent my summer as a Committee Clerk of the Retirement Committee at the state Capitol in Baton Rouge. This was during the regular session of the Louisiana Legislature.
At the end of the COVID epidemic the world began to open up. One industry that had shut down completely was the cruise business. When the industry was allowed to resume operations it was slow to build back its clientele.
