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One of my keener disappointments in the final days of the 2013 Legislature was the failure to fully and permanently fund basic education as required by the state Supreme Court’s McCleary ruling. Rather than create a permanent revenue stream by ...

Sen. Bob Hasegawa took the Senate floor today to explain how a Republican proposal to change worker compensation would shift business costs onto the taxpaying public.

Sen. Bob Hasegawa took to the Senate floor today to make the case to fully fund education but not in a way that comes at the expense of other vital services.

In this video update, Sen. Bob Hasegawa voices his concerns with the Senate budget passed by the Republican majority this session and its reliance on fiscal gimmicks instead of sound accounting principles.