Inslee prepares to call a special session

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Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Inslee prepares to call a special session</h1>
                <h2><p>With time running out for the Legislature to update the state budget, Gov. Jay Inslee appears set to call lawmakers back into a special session. And it looks like he plans to carry out his threat to veto pending bills until the Legislature comes up with a special session.

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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>With time running out for the Legislature to update the state budget, Gov. Jay Inslee appears set to call lawmakers back into a special session. And it looks like he plans to carry out his threat to veto pending bills until the Legislature comes up with a special session.</p><p>In a press announcement sent out shortly before noon, his communications staff said he would hold a 10:30 p.m. news conference where he would announce details regarding a special session. The announcement said the governor would take action on a list of about three dozen bills awaiting his signature— and that veto messages would be available at the press event.</p><p>Crosscut's Tom James will be following the action — or inaction — in the Legislature all day. His report from this afternoon <a href="http://crosscut.com/2016/03/legislature-watches-basketball-as-special-session-looms/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">is here</a>; an earlier report on the race to the finish line <a href="http://crosscut.com/2016/03/under-the-gun-lawmakers-race-to-the-finish-line/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">is here.</a></p>
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With time running out for the Legislature to update the state budget, Gov. Jay Inslee appears set to call lawmakers back into a special session. And it looks like he plans to carry out his threat to veto pending bills until the Legislature comes up with a special session.

In a press announcement sent out shortly before noon, his communications staff said he would hold a 10:30 p.m. news conference where he would announce details regarding a special session. The announcement said the governor would take action on a list of about three dozen bills awaiting his signature— and that veto messages would be available at the press event.

Crosscut's Tom James will be following the action — or inaction — in the Legislature all day. His report from this afternoon is here; an earlier report on the race to the finish line is here.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi