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‘No progress yet today’

Senate and House leaders walk across Capitol Park, returning to the Capitol Annex from a meeting with Gov. Butch Otter on Wednesday morning. The meeting failed to yield a compromise on transportation funding. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)
Senate and House leaders walk across Capitol Park, returning to the Capitol Annex from a meeting with Gov. Butch Otter on Wednesday morning. The meeting failed to yield a compromise on transportation funding. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)

Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, asked what he felt came out of the joint leadership meeting with the governor this morning, said, "We didn't make any progress yet today." Senate leaders joined the meeting for about the final hour, he said. Told that House Speaker Lawerence Denney now intends to adjourn the House sine die today, Davis said, "We'll continue to, as a Senate, stay here and work on the legislative agenda, and look forward to continuing to work with them on their return." Meanwhile House leaders closed themselves in the speaker's office with Ways & Means Chairman Rich Wills and others, and temporarily banned reporters from the hallway outside the office.



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