Peter Wong, February 26, 2010
A 25-day session of Oregon lawmakers ended Thursday after Democratic majorities, with votes from a few Republicans, sent a reworked annual-sessions ballot measure to voters ...
Lawmakers passed about 100 of the 211 bills introduced, including a budget-balancing package that became necessary after a $170 million shortfall projected on Feb. 8. But there was less argument about the two-year budget, which passed quickly once legislative budget writers finished their work Monday, than about the perennial issue of annual sessions.
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