No amendments were offered to the medical marijuana bill.

I was the floor leader, responsible for explaining House Bill 2 and defeating unfriendly amendments.

“This is your big day,” a committee colleague said to me shortly before today’s session began.

“I hope not,” I replied.

If we had done our job – bringing a good bill to the floor (with twenty committee amendments) and then suggesting to members thinking of offering floor amendments that this good bill did not need to be revised further, there would be no amendments.

“If you have your case won, sit down and shut up,” I was taught in law school.

In a court room or a legislative body.