Augusta, Maine (AP) Lawmakers are again returning to Augusta to consider dozens of vetoes along with bonds and bills that have been held up by politics.
The Legislature’s special session continues Monday at an expected cost for taxpayers of roughly $40,000 per day.
Republican Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed about three dozen bills, including funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. He has chastised lawmakers for trying to spend all of Maine’s $141 million surplus funds.
The governor also wants lawmakers to slow down future voter-approved increases to the state’s minimum wage. Such conservative efforts have failed this year, but LePage’s proposal has become a bargaining chip.
Lawmakers are holding up widely supported tax code reform legislation and a bond package.
