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Now what? La. veto session sharply divides

For all the hype, Louisiana’s first veto override session under the state’s nearly 50-year-old constitution turned out to be a bit of a dud.

Republican lawmakers got the votes to hold the unprecedented session and can point to that as a continued expansion of their recent flexing of constitutional authority. But they couldn’t get enough votes in the House to overturn a single bill rejection issued …

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