Cutoff day: Mullet's committee guts credit-scoring bill

Bill to rescue dairy industry from overtime claims turns into overtime for all farm workers; House committee chair dumps bills, citing pandemic restrictions

Monday was policy committee cutoff day at the Legislature, but even if procedural minutia isn’t your jam, don’t wander off just yet. The pressure to get bills passed out of their first committees lends itself to all manner of influence, gamesmanship, even drama. The events of cutoff days remind us frequently why elections matter and of the enduring alle…