Author: Pat Dooris, Jamie Parfitt (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — The longest walkout in Oregon legislative history ended late last week as Democratic and Republican leadership in the Senate hashed out a deal to provide a quorum in the chamber ...
Author: Jamie Parfitt (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Thursday saw the end of a six-week walkout, the longest in state history, that ground business in the Oregon Senate to a halt. Enough Republican senators showed up in the chamber that ...
Author: KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Business is resuming on the Oregon Senate floor Thursday for the first time in six weeks, marking the end of the longest legislative walkout in state history. After taking roll call, the Oregon ...
Author: Anthony Macuk (KGW), KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — The ongoing Republican walkout in the Oregon Senate has stretched on for more than a month, and it certainly feels like a record-setter. Without enough Republicans in Salem to form ...
Author: KGW Staff, Daisy Caballero SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — This week the Oregon Senate enters week six of the Republican-led walkout which has halted hundreds of bills, including House Bill 2002. Senate Democrats took to the steps of the Capitol to ...
Author: Ashley Koch, Jamie Parfitt (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — With a Senate walkout now in its fifth week, Thursday saw a big development in the Republican caucus. Lawmakers gathered in one room at the capitol, albeit not on the ...
Author: KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — The Oregon Senate voted Thursday to fine state senators $325, starting Monday, for each day their absence restricts the Senate from establishing a quorum. The GOP walkout began May 3 and is currently in ...
Author: Kale Williams (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Hundreds of bills remain stuck in legislative limbo as a Republican walkout in the Oregon Senate stretches into its fifth week. Among the stalled bills are several pieces of high-priority environmental legislation ...
Author: Jamie Parfitt (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) – As a walkout led by Oregon Senate Republicans drags on, grinding legislative business in the chamber to a halt, there’s an increasing risk that hundreds of bills — many of them broadly ...
Author: Anthony Macuk (KGW), Evan Watson, KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon Senate Republicans are pledging to end their walkout on June 25, the constitutionally mandated final day of the current legislative session, in order to pass “substantially bipartisan ...