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50/25/1
With a little over four weeks left to go in the session, Speaker Jinkins is thinking about the many steps that need to happen...
The most challenging budget situation of her entire speakership
This week, Speaker Laurie Jinkins is focused squarely on the Legislature’s next, and biggest, task: crafting and passing an operating budget — a moral...
A micro-podcast as the cutoff deadline looms
It’s House of Origin Cutoff, an important deadline in the session, so Speaker Jinkins only had 56 seconds to chat with us.
Uncharted territory
Speaker Laurie Jinkins discusses the transition in Olympia to full-time floor action this week, and recounts her discussion with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray about...
The challenge of governing
It’s great to be in the majority, and be able to pass good policies that help people thrive and move Washington forward. Democrats in...
A really hard, hard week: Policy Cutoff is here
In this week’s installment of The Speaker’s Scoop, Speaker Jinkins talks about two hard deadlines legislators are facing — policy cutoff and fiscal cutoff...