Lawmakers have rather slow, short first day of special session

Lawmakers met in Juneau today for the first day of the special session. Governor Walker called the Legislature back to work after it failed to pass a budget by the constitutional deadline last week. Lawmakers now have 30 days to try to accomplish what they couldn’t do in the last four months,: pass a budget and make some progress on closing the state’s $4 billion deficit.
APRN’s Rachel Waldholz is in Juneau this week.
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House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, Rep.