As they see it.

• Position: Legislator's opinion - Brief article

"When did our lunch line become a crime scene? I think our children should be learning more of their ABCs and less CSI."

--Iowa Senator Herman Quirmbach to the Sioux City Journal on a proposal to allow the use of fingerprint scanners in school lunch lines.

"They [oil and gas producers] have no friends and we thought we were the appropriate way to help them solve a problem and have some friends."

--Chris Romer, president of Great Education Colorado, to the Denver Post about a proposal to increase by 1 percent the taxes oil and gas producers pay to fund school building and renovations.

"This legislation is bringing in the scales of justice. I hope this bill isn't gutted by the Senate. We would like to fillet the opposition. I'm now trolling for votes."

--Utah Senator Patrice Arent on a legislative blog about a bill to increase the penalty for those who obtain financial information from people by setting up fake Web sites--a practice know as "phishing."

"Are we supposed to swallow this hook, line and sinker?"

--Utah Senator Curt Bramble, in...