Dan Popkey reports when Sen. Tim Corder, the new chairman of the Senate Local Government & Taxation Committee, suggested a first-ever joint hearing, House Revenue & Taxation Committee Chairman Dennis Lake might well have blown off Corder.

Rather than remind Corder that the Idaho Constitution requires revenue measures to start in the House, Lake agreed.

The 27 committee members — nine from the Senate and 18 from the House — meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

“We want the Senate to be part of the solution,” said Lake, R-Blackfoot. Lake and Corder invited testimony from witnesses representing agriculture, banking, energy, job creation, big business, small business and chambers of commerce.