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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Louisiana won't be making changes to its system for electing members of Congress, after state senators rejected the last pending proposal about the congressional elections calendar Wednesday.
Louisiana lawmakers Thursday gave final passage to an effort pushed by Republican House Speaker Clay Schexnayder to begin the centralization of the state s sales tax collections, a long-sought goal of business organizations.
Louisiana won’t be making changes to its system for electing members of Congress, after state senators rejected the last pending proposal about the congressional elections calendar Wednesday.
Reworking of Louisiana congressional election calendar fails
MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press
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FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2018, file photo, state Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Baton Rouge asks questions about a tax bill during a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana won t be making changes to its system for electing members of Congress, after state senators on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, rejected the last pending proposal about the congressional elections calendar. Rep. Ivey was trying to ensure the state is no longer electing its congressional members later than the rest of the country by shifting the election dates to earlier in a year.Melinda Deslatte/AP