There's a presidential debate or two coming up I'm told and the skim wants to help you

be prepared for it.

They've got all the candidates resumes and their priorities for 2020 in one place.

That place is the skim.com slash debate.

But guess what?

Just a little twist.

There's two M's in skim.

skim.com slash debate.

Lauren Dick, you covered politics for Oregon public broadcasting.

Something very strange is happening in your state capital right now.

Could you tell us what exactly that is?

Yeah, so the Oregon Senate Republicans here have actually fled our state and are apparently

in Idaho or Montana or other states in order to avoid a vote on a pretty sweeping climate

change bill.

It's a cap and trade bill.

The Republicans here, they're in the super minority and it's really one of the only

maneuvers that they have to gain leverage over the majority party.

The state constitution here requires that 20 members be present to have a quorum on

the Senate floor in order for them to do business.

There are 18 Democrats, so they need two Republican members to show up in order to vote on

bills.

This bill has long been a big Democratic priority.

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