Rocky poltical reporters Chris Barge and Alan Gathright lay down the good, the bad and the ugly in on a video wrap-up on the 2008 legislative session

"Well, since they flushed my sewer amendment, I'm going to vote no on this bill" -- Rep. Jim Kerr, R-Littleton, after his bid to get the Public Utilities Commission to regulate sewer rate hikes failed.

As things turned zany in the last hours of the session, House Speaker Andrew Romanoff put up a life-sized cut out of the ever-wise Yoda with a sign declaring: "May the force be with you - Sine Die."

The latter phrase is Latin for "without day," the motion ending the session.

Romanoff said a bunch of people got the idea years ago that he's really into Star Wars. It's not true, but he doesn't have the heart to tell them.

Term-limited House Speaker Andrew Romanoff and House Majority Leader Alice Madden couldn't resist wisecracking when a reporter asked if they'd told the "kids" left to run the majority party how to hold onto power. Both began their eight-year careers in the minority dungeon.

"I'm sorry. We're so old, we can't hear you," creaked the 41-year-old Romanoff.

"Ohhhh, they hear how we had to walk to the majority in two feet of snow, uphill both ways," Madden added. "I tell them that everyday. They don't listen, they don't write, they don't call."

"I'm absolutely convinced that Howard Hughes is my daddy and I'm waiting for the check" -- House Minority Leader Mike May, joking to lighten the intense debate over a bill to allow men to escape child support payments if DNA confimrs they're not the father.

State Troopers returned "P-Dog," the kidnapped fiberglass prairie dog, to a relieved Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon Tuesday evening. The Superman constume-clad critter was unharmed.

Rep. Douglas Bruce, who authored the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights embedded in the Constitution, blasted Senate Concurrent Resolution 3 as "another political power grab."

Somebody's termed-limited

The top executive drops by the House to praise lawmakers as they push through what may be the last day of the 2008 session

Majority Democratic lawmakers are holding a 1:30 p.m. balloons-and-streamers rally on the Capitol steps to celebrate their "Invest in Kids" legislative achievements - from expanding health care coverage for 50,000 children to growing preschool and full-day kindergarten.