Last night at 11:55 PM, with 5 minutes to spare before the deadline, Rep. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, presided over the House of Representatives and brought down the final gavel…
2014 Legislative Session adjourns on time
Creating jobs in creative ways
Creating jobs isn’t just about traditional work-with-your-hands employment on highway projects, school construction or in Puget Sound boatyards – although House Democrats are good at that. It’s also about improving…
Friday, March 14 – Sine Die Edition
AP Legislature passes ‘sustainable’ state budget, adjourns (Hargrove, Hunter, Liias) Bill retaining fee for homeless goes to Inslee Workers flock to marijuana job fair FBI balks at pot background checks…
Moeller cites House hits, Senate misses in 2014 session
House of Representatives Speaker Pro Tempore Jim Moeller offered the following review of this year’s completed session: “Just a few hours after we started the 2014 session, the House of…
2014 session adjourns sine die
The 2014 legislative session ended tonight at 11:50 PM. While much of the great legislation passed by the House met an untimely death in the Senate, there are many good…