Cool: Oregon lawmakers were supposed to vote on a climate change bill. Republicans walked out — again.

This was not “the Oregon Way.” Inside the Salem statehouse Monday morning, the desks on one side of the Senate chamber were empty, and the names of their occupants echoed off wood-paneled walls, repeated twice during roll call to no response. Outside, the horn of a semi-truck blared its protest.

For the second time in eight months, Oregon Republicans walked out of the capitol, denying the Democratic supermajority a chance to pass a bill that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. By absconding, the 11 GOP lawmakers prevented the quorum necessary to vote on the legislation and forced Democrats to adjourn for the day.

It was the same tactic Republican lawmakers employed in June, when they fled to Idaho to avoid a vote on an earlier version of the same cap-and-trade bill, prompting Oregon’s governor to call in state troopers to track them down and return them to the statehouse. The bill eventually died, giving the minority party a playbook for undercutting liberal policy goals. With similar climate change legislation on Democrats’ wish list again this year, Republicans had long threatened a walkout.

Cool: Oregon lawmakers were supposed to vote on a climate change bill. Republicans walked out — again. BZ5SONSXIQI6VDX5B6IEXXMAK4

Cool: Oregon lawmakers were supposed to vote on a climate change bill. Republicans walked out — again. BZ5SONSXIQI6VDX5B6IEXXMAK4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/24/oregon-gop-walkout/

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Cool: Oregon lawmakers were supposed to vote on a climate change bill. Republicans walked out — again.

Cool: Oregon lawmakers were supposed to vote on a climate change bill. Republicans walked out — again.

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