Legislative Leader Wants Planning Committee

    PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - House Republican Leader David Lust of Rapid
City says he will ask the South Dakota Legislature to set up a new
long-term planning committee that would conduct studies on key
issues.
     Lust says the Legislature too often deals with education and
other issues one year at a time. He says that puts the part-time
Legislature at a disadvantage when dealing with full-time officials
in the executive branch of government.
     Lust says the proposed new committee would be a permanent panel
that would compete with the executive branch in suggesting ideas.