The 2023 regular session convened at noon today, lawmakers will ahve to decide whether to raise the state’s spending cap. La-Politics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says it will require a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers.
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Two bills have been filed in the House that would add rape and incest exceptions into the abortion ban. JMC Analytics pollster John Couvillon polled one-thousand likely voters last week and 70-percent support exceptions for rape and incest. Couvillon says 39-percent of those surveyed identified themselves as Republicans…
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The survey was paid for by groups who support pro-choice legislation.

Legislation seeking to triple state legislators’ pay to $60,000 will be heard in the legislative session that is underway. Teiko Foxx has more.
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Former Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub has passed away at the age of 78. Ieyoub served as the state’s A-G from 1992 to 2004. Ieyoub won a multimillion dollar tobacco settlement for Louisiana that went towards health care costs of smokers. He also created a high-technology unit that targets sexual predators on the Internet.