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By MELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) â Louisiana lawmakers ended their historic veto session Wednesday after two days in which Republicans failed to overturn any of Gov. John Bel Edwards bill rejections, a significant blow to GOP efforts to assert independence from the Democratic governor.
The session collapsed after House Republicans couldn t garner the votes to reverse Edwards veto of legislation banning transgender girls from school sports teams, the driving force behind the first veto session ever held under the nearly 50-year-old state constitution.
âIt appears that we have concluded the business of the veto session,â Republican Senate President Page Cortez said two hours after the House s failed override vote.
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