With a 5 p.m. deadline looming, the House and Senate are continuing to work on bills they are interested in keeping under consideration.
The hot rumor is that in the Senate the self-proclaimed "road-kill" caucus, a group of Senate Democrats that often vote more "conservatively" and therefore get run over by others in their caucus, are planning to join with Senate Republicans to "hijack" the rest of the agenda.
Not sure if that will happen, but they just finished discussing a study of Mazama pocket gophers. This will be followed by other "animal" bills (sharks, cougars, eggs, etc.), although nothing on possums.
Nothing quite so fun or interesting in the House, unfortunately. Most of their big push was on Saturday, when they worked past midnight.
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