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After nearly 10 hours of negotiations over the weekend, top lawmakers arrived at a tentative framework for rescuing the 2023 session. Both sides stress a deal hasn't been made.
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One thing that is clear is that hope for an end to the five-week walkout has been rekindled in recent days partly because of a friendship between two lawmakers: Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, and Sen. Kathleen Taylor, D-Portland.
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We’re wrapping up the 5th week of the GOP led walkout of the Oregon senate. And, without a quorum in the senate, it’s not looking likely much more legislation will come out of this session, including budgets for most state agencies.
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UFCW Local 555 says it's well on its way to forcing a recall election on Rep. Paul Holvey, D-Eugene. Senate Democrats have tried to intervene.
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Lawmakers have fewer than three weeks left to work through their differences.
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On Thursday, Senate Democrats did not say how they plan to bill their colleagues, what would happen if Republicans don’t pay nor where the money would go.
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With both parties unwilling to budge on a bill tackling abortion and transgender care, the 2023 session appears stuck.
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Conservative lawmakers have hired a prominent attorney to argue that the wording of Ballot Measure 113 does not do what voters thought it did when they passed it last year.
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Lawmakers boycotting this session created a new political committee to raise money off the walkout. That money can't be used to challenge a new law that could bounce them from office.
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The Oregon legislative session has been at an impasse for weeks since most Republican Senators and one independent walked out. Without the necessary quorum to conduct business, there’s not much getting done in Salem right now. KLCC’s Rachael McDonald spoke with KLCC’s political reporter Dirk VanderHart to get an update.
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Gov. Tina Kotek has not been able to convince Republican lawmakers to return to Salem.
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House Speaker Pro-Tem Paul Holvey, D-Eugene, has long been seen as a staunch labor ally in the Capitol. But one union says his conduct merits a recall.