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Analysis: Edwards embraced veto pen for La. special session

by Melinda Deslatte
| November 22, 2020 1:36 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards liberally used his veto pen for the majority-Republican Legislature's latest special session, striking down 15% of the measures that reached his desk in another indication of sharp disagreements over how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

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