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Edwards embraced veto pen for La. special session

Gov. John Bel Edwards liberally used his veto pen for the majority-Republican Legislature’s latest special session, striking down 15 percent of the measures that reached his desk in another indication of sharp disagreements over how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Democratic governor rejected 11 of the 71 bills passed by lawmakers in October and stripped out a handful of projects added …

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