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Ways & Means to meet today

House Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts, R-Donnelly, answers questions from reporters after a closed majority caucus on Monday morning. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)
House Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts, R-Donnelly, answers questions from reporters after a closed majority caucus on Monday morning. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)

House Republicans emerged from their closed-door caucus without a lot to say. "We're working on a plan to get this session adjourned and go home," said Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts, R-Donnelly. "We're still working on it." The House Ways & Means Committee will meet this afternoon, Roberts said, and the House today will go to its amending order to amend legislation. House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, said he thought the statement House GOP leaders issued on Friday - in which they said they won't support a gas tax increase this year - speaks for itself. "There's nothing that should keep us here past Wednesday," he said, to which House Speaker Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale, added, "I absolutely agree with that."



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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