Little Consensus Among Alabama Legislators During Special Session

| August 6, 2015 

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Alabama Lawmakers are more than halfway through a special session designed to fix the state’s more than $200 million dollar budget shortfall. Legislators passed no new revenues this week, and agreed on very little. That means Alabama is likely headed to a special session. For more, we talk with Don Dailey. He’s the host of Capitol Journal on Alabama Public Television. Dailey told WBHM’s Rachel Osier Lindley what did — and didn’t — happen in Montgomery this week.

 

 

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