A graveyard, a garden bed. Lester Black
Today lawmakers in Olympia run up against another deadline in this short, 60-day legislative session in Washington state: All policy bills must pass out of their chamber of origin (i.e. the House or the Senate) by 5 pm or else face certain death.
Caveat: Lawmakers can revive dead bills by declaring them “necessary to implement the budget,” a kind of trickery that tends to emerge as our faithful public servants haggle over votes in their final weeks of governing.
Worth noting: As they do every year, the Republicans made the task of passing bills more difficult by wasting a bunch of
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