From Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson:
Round one of this year’s legislative session is over. But they’ll be back.
At 1:49 Friday morning, the House passed a resolution to adjourn (temporarily), almost an hour after the Senate wrapped up its business.
A statement issued early Friday by Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, noted that the long session’s adjournment date is the second-earliest since 1973. During the session, Berger said, Republicans “fulfilled their promises to further reduce taxes on middle-class families and job-creators, provide a fourth consecutive teacher pay raise, appropriate nearly $700 million more for public education, and rebuild communities devastated by Hurricane Matthew — all while saving for a rainy day.”
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