Oregon Senate president says climate change bill dead; Republicans fled state to avoid voting on it - Entrepreneur Generations

"Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney said Tuesday that the climate change bill that prompted Republicans’ walkout lacks the votes necessary to pass because not enough Democrats support it," The Oregonian reports. Courtney said a long list of other important bills with bipartisan support needed to be passed by the June 30 deadline.

Senate Republicans fled the state last week to prevent a vote on a climate change cap and trade bill. Without the Republicans, the Senate could not achieve quorum and therefore could not vote, The Oregonian reports. They said it was the best way they could represent their conservative rural constituents. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, ordered state police to round them up, but armed militias, who promised to protect the Republicans from capture, threatened the state capitol and prompted a temporary shutdown.

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