Oregon Joint Committee on Ways and Means encourages public comment at series of state budget hearings

The committee held a two-hour hearing on the state budget — more specifically the roughly $32 billion the Oregon Legislature has control over and can allocate.

PORTLAND, Ore. — It may have been Saturday morning, but that didn’t stop hundreds of people from taking time out of their weekend to show up in person and possibly get the chance to testify in front of Oregon lawmakers on the Joint Committee on Ways and Means about the state budget. 

At Portland Community College’s Sylvania campus, crowds packed the auditorium. 

“It was very empowering to walk into that room and see that it was standing room

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