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Spin Control archive for July 31, 2014

THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2014

Bipartisan Ex-Im Bank bill introduced in Senate 

Washington's two senators helped sponsor a bipartisan bill Thursday that would keep a major export program vital to the state from going out of business. But Congress, which starts a five-week recess this weekend, will have to use parliamentary shortcuts to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank…

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State wants to be part of pot ban cases 

OLYMPIA -- The Attorney General's office wants to get involved in a pair of lawsuits between pot businesses and cities that have banned them in an effort to "protect the will of the voters" who legalized the drug in 2012. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said…

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