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The Montana House Thursday offered its support to a bill that would create a commission to study whether to permanently revoke regulations suspended during the coronavirus pandemic.
Listen • 13:50 Right-to-work legislation fails. "Culture war" bills are still alive. And the big budget fights loom as the Legislature marks its midpoint. Listen now on Capitol Talk with Sally Mauk, Holly Michels and Rob Saldin. Sally Mauk Holly, one of the bills that did not make the deadline be transmitted to the other chamber was a so-called right to work bill, strongly and effectively opposed by Democrats and unions and a lot of Republicans who voted no. Holly Michels Yeah, this was a pretty interesting debate we heard in the House on Tuesday. It was carried by a ...
Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Montana defeats ‘right to work’; W. Va. governor admits it’s failed his state March 5, 2021 1:07 PM CDT By PAI And Northwest Labor Press Montana union members jammed the state capitol building in Helena to campaign against GOP-sponsored so-called “right to work” legislation there and won. The RTW bill went down a bipartisan drain, as 29 Republicans joined all the D...
Right-to-work legislation fails. "Culture war" bills are still alive. And the big budget fights loom as the Legislature marks its midpoint. Listen now on
University of Montana School of Journalism Despite all the challenges brought by the pandemic, lawmakers in the 67th Montana Legislative Session are wasting no time in pushing through a deluge of bills -- some new and untested, some vetoed numerous times before, but all being considered in a new light with a Republican governor in office for the first time in 16 years. Wednesday, March 3 marked the halfway point of the session and a key deadline called “transmittal.” Any general policy bills not attached to the state budget that have not advanced from the house they originated in are cons...