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by Tim Gruver, The Center Square | April 30, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article
Oregon Senate Republicans want the state reopened and appear willing to disrupt the legislative process to do it.
On Wednesday, the Senate GOP Caucus signaled its intent to take on the same parliamentary procedures as House Republicans earlier in the session by demanding bills be read aloud in full before a vote. As this session has shown, the Constitutional requirement that legislation be read in its entirety is an important tool to encourage bipartisan collaboration, the Senate Republican Caucus announced in a statement.
In response, Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, resorted to reading bills aloud Wednesday. The effort is part of larger concerns among Democratic lawmakers regarding public safety since four COVID cases twice shut down the House this session.
“I chose to save lives.”
This week, the Oregon Health Authority reported that the state recorded its fifth straight week where cases have increases by 20% more.
About 80% of the state’s staffed adult ICU beds and 90% of the state’s staffed adult non-ICU beds are occupied, based on Oregon Health Authority data provided.
Since the beginning of the month, COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled. As of Thursday, 339 people were hospitalized with the virus in Oregon.
Brown said COVID-19 data over the past month has been “eye opening” and last week she announced that 15 counties Baker, Clackamas, Columbia, Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk and Wasco - would be moved to the “extreme risk” level.
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With a deal in place between Democrats and Republicans, legislation is moving with speed through the Oregon House of Representatives. But now there are