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City Club of Eugene: What Did the 2023 Oregon Legislature Accomplish?

Worth noting:

Despite an amendment to the Oregon Constitution designed to prevent it, 10 Republican senators staged a 6-week walkout. They returned on June 15 after Democrats and Republicans reached a compromise. The parties agreed to the ease provisions in HB 2002, the reproductive health care bill, and dropped a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to same-sex marriage, abortion, and gender-affirming care. Also dropped were more stringent controls on gun possession. As a result, in the remaining 10 days before sine die, several significant bills were passed as modified, including a state budget for the next two years.

Pisses me off that these regressive assholes are still able to manipulate the system enough to prevent progress.

City Club of Eugene: What Did the 2023 Oregon Legislature Accomplish?https://www.klcc.org/show/city-club-of-eugene/2023-07-16/city-club-of-eugene-what-did-the-2023-oregon-legislature-accomplishOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Not to be that guy, but the measure really wasn't about preventing the walkout. It was more about punishment (I can see the reasoning that "punishment should be incentive not to do the thing", but these are politicians at the end of the day).

My point here is that it's another example of Oregon's reactionary politics - 113 wasnt well constructed/thought through (following similiar measures of its era). Simply, we should have amended the Quorum rules to a simple majority. We still need this as a solution.

Edit: typos

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