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A House committee has advanced one bill on the governor’s special session list. In a pyrrhic victory for Hammond Representative Chris Broadwater, the…
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“We have to do things differently. And I need your help,” Governor-elect John Bel Edwards told the Council for a Better Louisiana annual meeting…
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The Louisiana Board of Regents has learned that they’re owed a decent chunk of money. "The Board of Regents was supposed to have received about $15…
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“We stand here and declare the 2015 regular session adjourned sine die.”With that, the 2015 legislative session came to a close. The uncertainty and drama…
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The state legislature is adjourned.WRKF's Sue Lincoln explains that lawmakers passed a veto-proof budget in the final hours of the session and headed home.
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As the final day of the session begins, there is no budget agreement.“Members, I would move that we reject the Senate amendments and send House Bill One…
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The House spent much of Tuesday giving the Senate the finger.“Which finger?” Speaker Chuck Kleckley joked at one point.Although House members did concur…
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“Who the hell cares what Grover says?”Apparently the Senate does, while the House could not care less. The Senate passed their “new and improved” version…
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Both the House and Senate worked over the weekend. Yet even Revenue Secretary Tim Barfield – the governor’s point man on tax increases and tax offsets --…