Oregon GOP senators end 6-week walkout after new agreements on abortion, gun bills

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Ending a walkout that held up key bills for six weeks, Republicans showed up for work in the Oregon Senate on Thursday after wresting concessions from Democrats on measures covering abortion, transgender health care and gun rights.

The lawmakers’ walkout — the longest in state history and the second-longest in the United States — came as several statehouses around the nation have been ideological battlegrounds, including in Montana and Tennessee.

The Republican boycott, which prevented the state Senate from reaching a two-thirds quorum needed to pass bills, was prompted by a sweeping measure on abortion and gender-affirming care that Republicans called too extreme. The measure would allow doctors to provide abortions regardless of a patient’s age, with medical providers not required to notify the parents of a minor in certain cases.

As part of the deal to end the walkout, Democrats agreed to change language concerning parental notifications for abortion.

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-gop-walkout-ends-e4cf9a17ce536232d158dfe4cc4fc96c

[LuckyLib]

1. This is how Republicans view governing. Blackmail.

[Tree Lady]

2. And what about kids who get molested?

That's a second rape having to go to them for permission to end what they did.

[barbaraann]

3. They really did get a lot accomplished in the days after the walkout ended.

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/06/25/2023-oregon-legislature-session-ends-in-crush-of-bills/