Legislature's Budget Battle Continues

WAITSBURG – State Representatives Terry Nealey and Maureen Walsh stopped by The Times' office last week to discuss the on-going 2016 legislative session and some of the sticking points that are keeping legislators at work past the scheduled 60-day deadline.

Nealey and Walsh are both Republican members of the House, representing the 16th Legislative District, which includes Columbia and Walla Walla Counties.

The Republican-led Senate and the Democratic-led House of Representatives failed to agree on a supplemental budget by the scheduled March 10 end of the regular session. Governor Jay Inslee...