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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/montanas_legislative_timeout/1153/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: Montana’s lawmakers are trying to make it easier to get along with each other. Following nasty election campaigns, hurt feelings are so rampant that grown men and women need to be separated for a while. Cool off. Find some alone time. It’s legislative timeout. And it was just one of the solutions pitched at a two-day conference held in Helena last week aimed at improving Montana’s legislative process. After one of the most partisan sessions many can remember, where the Legislature couldn’t fulfill its only responsibility – passing a budget – on time, changes in the system are being mulled. They’re certainly needed. But the proposal to move the session to even-numbered years is absurd, and a bit sad.