Tina Kotek urged lawmakers to concentrate on the most state's most pressing issues. “My number-one focus for the legislative session is to put as much as possible into the effort to improve housing production in the state,” Kotek said. Kotek's roughly $500 million housing package this session also would include $20 million in grants she described as “climate-friendly” incentives. Wagner said he spent the interim period between sessions traveling across the state to visit Republican senators in their home districts and described having “good and open conversations” with Knopp. “Let’s focus on housing, let’s focus on behavioral health, let’s focus on summer learning,” Kotek said.

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Persons: Tina Kotek, ” Kotek, Kotek, decriminalizing, “, ”, Jeff Helfrich, Tim Knopp, Rob Wagner, Wagner Organizations: Republican, Democratic Gov, Republicans, GOP, Democratic, Oregon Supreme Locations: SALEM, Ore, Oregon, Knopp