JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - One Juneau lawmaker says the current leadership in the Alaska state Senate may not survive.
Sen. Dennis Egan tells KTOO (https://is.gd/AJD6vL) that Senate members may try to form a bipartisan majority caucus next year.
Republican victories in the 2012 election helped dismantle a bipartisan coalition that had ruled the Senate since 2007.
However, Egan says he believes there was a lot of dissatisfaction with how things were run this year.
Lawmakers failed to get their work done within the scheduled 90 days. They had to stay in session an extra five days to work out a compromise on Gov. Sean Parnell’s education bill, despite Republicans controlling both the House and the Senate.
Egan joined fellow Democrat Donny Olson of Golovin to caucus with 13 Republicans in the majority this year.
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Information from: KTOO-FM, https://www.ktoo.org
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