Video: Oregon Senate Democrats release 2013 Legislative Agenda
Senate Majority Leader Diane Rosenbaum of Portland, Sen. Arnie Roblan of Coos Bay and Sen. Alan Bates of Medford discuss the Senate Democrats’ 2013 legislative agenda Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 at the Capitol.
Their agenda focuses on getting more money into the classroom and keeping classroom sizes small; helping small businesses stay in business and to expand, partly through streamlining the state's economic development program; helping rural Oregon economically and keeping people in their homes.
Click the "Play Video" button to watch the news conference. The video has been edited for brevity.
New this year: KATU.com has created a KATUPolitics YouTube channel where it will be uploading supplemental videos from the Capitol this session and other videos of political and governmental interest.
OK you want to make nicotine by prescription only, or illegal, you want taxes for Oregon, you want to limit gun rights, you want to tell us if we can drive our cars with our kids in them, you deside what color our underwear will be next. I don;t think you have the right to take my rights away one more time the decisions of the few out way the rights of the many. Just because a person does not like something they think they should get to tell people they can't like it either. What happend to freedom to live life as you see fit. I personnelly don't like alcohol but do not push my opinion on other people. I don't like the color yellow but am not trying to make a law to keep people from wearing it in public. I am sick of all the people who run around makeing stupid laws that don't accomplish anything but to make them feel important and give them there fifteen minutes of fame and while your makeing laws how about one that creates jobs, health care for people who can't afford it, laws to protect children from abuse, tougher laws for drunk drivers. You want to change the world to suit your lifestyle well I personally think your life style and ideas suck so why don't we pass a law that if people think like you they go to jail. This country was built on the freedom of individuals so lets try to keep that in mind when you start trying to get thiese laws on the books and can you really enforce them or are you makeing people break the law just to enjoy there individual rights as Americans.