Justifying their walkout, Republican lawmakers say Democrats’ reproductive rights bill violates an obscure 1979 readability law. Most Oregon bills do, it turns out.
SALEM, Ore. — Before embarking on a legislative walkout now stretching into its second day, Republican lawmakers in Oregon began agitating about a reproductive rights bill championed by Democrats. While Republicans openly opposed the bill on ideological grounds, they also insisted that it violated state laws and rules on legislative procedure.
Those procedural claims have since become the centerpiece of Senate Republicans’ walkout and the inspiration for their jab at Democrats, “FOLLOW THE LAW.”
But KGW’s The Story found that many
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