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La. House speaker cautions against revoking virus emergency

by Associated Press
| July 17, 2020 12:27 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — House Speaker Clay Schexnayder sought Friday to stall an ongoing effort by his fellow Republicans to revoke Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus pandemic state of emergency, saying an override would be a “grave decision with potentially dire consequences.”

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