Author: Leading Winds News
After GOP walkout, Oregon lawmakers reconvene to focus on housing and drugs SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers convened Monday for the start of a short legislative session that is expected to be dominated by homelessness, a housing shortage and plans to overhaul the state’s pioneering drug decriminalization law as overdose deaths surge. Lawmakers will have just 35 days to pass bills. For now, legislative leaders have indicated that bipartisan lines of communication are open as they overcome any political tensions still lingering from last year’s Republican walkout over measures related to abortion, transgender care and gun rights, which ground…