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| 📷 House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, addresses the chamber at the State House in Augusta on June 27, 2023. (BDN photo by Linda Coan O'Kresik) |
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👋 The Legislature is gone after one last marathon day of work.
◉ Lawmakers came back to Augusta on Tuesday for their final day of work. They got more than they bargained for. Then again, hourslong delays and protracted work has been a theme of a 2023 session that dragged more than a month past the originally scheduled adjournment date.
◉ They were there until sunrise finishing up roughly $11 million in spending added onto the state budget finalized earlier this month. Among the top items passed by Wednesday morning included a key offshore wind compromise between Gov. Janet Mills and unions and a November vote on the state flag.
◉ Earlier in the day, the Democratic-led House also upheld two Mills vetoes, sending a foreign electioneering ban to the ballot and killing a progressive effort to apply Maine's minimum wage to farmworkers.
◉ "This new law will be a model for the rest of the nation for how people can come together across differences with common purpose to build a just clean energy economy that works for everyone," Rebeccah Sanders, CEO of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, said of the offshore wind deal.
◉ "Late night in Augusta," Rep. David Boyer, R-Poland, posted on Facebook at 1:16 a.m. "Maine taxpayers are getting the short end of it." |
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