Will the employers who create most of Colorado’s jobs get a reprieve, even if only slight, from a yearslong assault on business by the Legislature?
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As noted most recently by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s news service, it’s now pretty much official that Democrats have lost their veto-proof super-majority in the state House of Representatives following last month’s election. Republicans picked up a few more seats. And Democrats in charge at the state Senate failed in a bid to achieve a super-majority of their own.
The upshot is a little less leverage for the majority party’s noisy, radical fringe to wreak havoc in either chamber. Let’s hope.
As the chamber’s Capitol insider, The Sum & Substance, reminds us, “Democrats will not be able to override vetoes, put constitutional amendments onto the ballot or pass rules without some measure of Republican support. In practicality, that means the limits the majority party put on debate lengths in the past two years can’t occur without agreement from Republicans, which likely will involve more negotiation and compromise between the parties.”
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