OLYMPIA – The Legislature closed for about 17 hours overnight Tuesday – the amount of time between its ineffectual first special session and a second special session that some say could bring the state to a fiscal cliff. Gov. Jay Inslee criticized the largely Republican…
Speaker Pro Tem Jim Moeller and Lt. Gov. Brad Owen are projected on the wall of the Senate as each brings down a gavel to close the special session. OLYMPIA -- The First Special Session of the 2013 Legislature closed this afternoon with the bang…
OLYMPIA -- The First Special Session of the 2013 Legislature is expected to be gavelled to a close around 3:30 p.m. Legislators are being told to be back at their seats around then, and this special session will end less than 18 hours before the…
OLYMPIA -- Criticizing Senate Republicans for pushing ideology over budget compromise, Gov. Jay Inslee this morning called the Legislature into a second special session starting Wednesday. He also said he was directing his cabinet to study what state government services would have to be shut…
OLYMPIA -- It's the final day of the First Special Session. Or possibly the eve of the Second Special Session. Take your pick. Legislators don't have much incentive to pass anything today unless they could pass it in both chambers, because at the beginning of…
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