With the legislative session set to end Sunday at midnight, there were signs of movement.
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UPDATED: Oregon Climate Walkout Left Republicans in Hiding, Statehouse in Disarrayhttps://nyti.ms/2Lpqquv
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On Friday morning, facing mounting pressure from Democrats, Herman Baertschiger Jr., the Senate Republican leader, emerged from an Idaho hideaway.
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Sitting at a conference table surrounded by reporters, he said that his caucus had accomplished its goal, and would now come out of hiding. “Our mission of walking out of this building was to kill cap-and-trade,” he said. “And that’s what we did.”
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But as the Republicans prepared to come back to work at the State Capitol on Saturday, it was not at all clear that the measure was dead.
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In her office, the governor acknowledged that the climate bill would not pass by Sunday. But it could “certainly” come up in a special session, Ms. Brown said. “I’m not willing to say this fight is over.”
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The problem with falsely conflating the two sides: they are not "both doing this." The republicans are clearly doing this across the country--gutting gubernatorial rights, and, in this case, running away like children when they're outnumbered. Stop with the false equivalence.pic.twitter.com/KAfvMad49K
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