Legislative Commentary

Our Majority Coalition Caucus was all set to end the third week of the 2013 legislative session by sending several good job-creation bills on their way to the House of Representatives.

As the majority we had enough votes to pass bills that would reform the state workers’ compensation system in ways that will help Washington employers stay in business and possibly grow (which means more jobs). However, job creation isn’t our coalition’s only goal – we also want to leave the chaos and bickering to the “other Washington” and bring a new level of bipartisanship and cooperation to the Senate.

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