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Committee sees partisan split on ethylene oxide votes Committee sees partisan split on ethylene oxide votes

Committee sees partisan split on ethylene oxide votes

The House Energy and Environment Committee diverged Monday on a pair of highly-publicized bills aiming to better regulate ethylene oxide gas emissions in the state, passing one while letting another remain in committee.  The opposing votes represented a largely partisan split in a months-long effort to impose stricter regulations on a known cancer-causing gas used in medical supply sterilization and manufacturing processes.

Lawmakers: Ethics task force needed to help regain public’s trust Lawmakers: Ethics task force needed to help regain public’s trust

Lawmakers: Ethics task force needed to help regain public’s trust

Amid an ongoing flurry of federal investigative activity pertaining to state government, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called for the creation of a task force to recommend greater ethical safeguards during a Statehouse news conference Monday.  “We’re not here to be the judge and the jury at all, we are here to start a conversation,” Rep. Tony McCombie, a Savanna...
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