A handful of Democratic legislators have agreed to stand by their initial votes to override the new governor's vetoes.
The North Carolina House of Representatives reconvened on Tuesday, July 29 to override several bills that Governor Josh Stein vetoed earlier this month.
The Senate overrided the veto in a 30 to 19 vote on Monday along party lines after a brief recess due to loud disruptions from protestors, prompting Senate President and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to clear the gallery.
The North Carolina General Assembly plans to override House Bill 10 next week when they reconvene for four days in Raleigh in what could be the last strike against Gov. Cooper by the Republican supermajority. The legislation, which was passed by the General Assembly in September and subsequently vetoed by Cooper, will mandate that all...
On Tuesday, the Republican-led North Carolina Senate voted to override four of Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes, bringing the chamber’s total number of veto overrides this legislative session to all six.
Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill designed to prevent compelled speech for people seeking jobs with state government or local community colleges. Senate Bill 364 also would prevent state government agencies from promoting a list of 13 proscribed concepts.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses Gov. Roy Cooper’s campaign to convince Republican legislators to flip their votes on an abortion bill. Kokai offered these comments during the May 12, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, assesses the vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s first veto of 2023. King offered these comments during the March 31, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
Neither state Senate Democrat who initially voted for the Free the Smiles legislation last month was willing to stick with that “yes” vote this week. Both of their “yes” votes turned into “no” when they had a chance to help override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the school masking measure. The flip from “yes” to...
The speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives wants colleagues to override the governor’s veto of a bill ending school mask mandates. It would mark the first time in a year that lawmakers have tried to overturn a gubernatorial veto. “This isn’t over,” Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, tweeted Friday. “Looking forward to overriding @NC_Governor‘s veto...
Gov. Roy Cooper is on a pace that could rival former Gov. Bev Perdue’s record number of gubernatorial vetoes. But almost half of Perdue’s vetoes survived, while Cooper has yet to sustain a single one. Political analysts say wins and losses aren’t the real prize, and Cooper is likely to continue issuing vetoes. The end...
