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The most fun deadline—for us anyway

The most fun deadline—for us anyway

Stuff in play as a key procedural hurdle approaches, plus Tesla keeps its EV crown

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This might be the week we find out just how new-look the 2025 Legislature really is. Tuesday marks the opposite-house fiscal committee cutoff, one of the most momentous of the procedural deadlines. Look for simmering House-Senate resentments to reach a boiling point.1

The list of interesting controversial stuff awaiting votes in House Appropriations and Senate Ways & Means promises a drama-filled couple of days, with lawmakers and lobbyists alike sweating bullets as they hustle to pass—or kill—key legislation in the waning hours. Let’s take a spin through the stuff in play.

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