What NC lawmakers did – and didn’t do – in the short session
The General Assembly’s 2016 short session lived up to its name. At 68 days, it was shorter (lawmakers have averaged 77 days lawmakers in election-year sessions since 2000).
And, except for some frayed nerves in the final hours before a late-night Friday adjournment, the session’s tone was mostly one of cooperation rather than partisan bickering.
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Verbal missiles flew on the final day of the legislative session Friday in a couple of exchanges pitting the House against the Senate.
Republicans overwhelmingly control both chambers. But the House refused to go along with a plan to change how Asheville City Council members are elected, which was sought by Senate Rules Chairman Tom Apodaca.
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