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GOP analysis: Dems keeping many of their own bills alive at deadline

Jon Ralston
Jon Ralston
Ralston Reports
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The Nevada Legislature building as seen in Carson City on Feb. 6, 2017.

As a Tuesday deadline approaches for bills to make it out of the house of origin, an internal GOP memo makes the case for more partisanship this session by Democratic leaders than in recent Legislatures.

"One of the more interesting items that can be found in these numbers is the percentage of Democrat sponsored bills that were killed," the memo prepared by GOP leadership staff says. "In the prior two sessions, the party in charge killed 25.49% of their own party's bills. This session, the party in charge only killed 9.39% of their own bills!"

Two decimal places!

The oppressed minority also found that the Assembly has killed 8 percent of Democratic bills compared to 58 percent of Republican bills; in the state Senate, those numbers are 11 percent and 45 percent.

The numbers from 2015, when the GOP controlled both houses, are starkly different: Assembly (45 percent and 34 percent in the Assembly and 56 percent and 25 percent in the state Senate -- that infernal Michael Roberson!).

It will be interesting to see what those numbers look like after Tuesday's deadline. With so many waivers and exemptions, many bills remain alive -- almost all of them Democratic measures.

Here's the full memo.

 

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