Welcome to The Speaker’s Scoop, a behind-the-scenes podcast with Washington Speaker of the House Laurie Jinkins. In this first episode, Speaker Jinkins talks about the ceremonial aspects of the first week of session. She also talks about the budget challenge facing lawmakers this year, and how this may be the year a rent stabilization bill gets all the way to the governor’s desk.
This week, Speaker Laurie Jinkins talks about opposite-house cutoff, five o’clock bills, conference committees, concurrences — the hectic give and take that characterizes the...
With H.R. 1, the federal government has created a disaster with regards to health care access and affordability, food assistance, and more here in...
As the session winds down and deadlines loom, Speaker Jinkins says she's staying focused not on the constraints of the clock or the calendar,...