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The House spent 26 hours debating passage of a Millionaires Tax on Monday and Tuesday this week, with the bill finally passing late Tuesday afternoon. Speaker Jinkins discusses how House Democrats stayed focused and moti

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A weekly, behind-the-scenes visit with Washington State Speaker of the House of Representatives Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma)
Speaker Laurie Jinkins hosts The Speaker's Scoop, a news show with 14 episodes published.

The House spent 26 hours debating passage of a Millionaires Tax on Monday and Tuesday this week, with the bill finally passing late Tuesday afternoon. Speaker Jinkins discusses how House Democrats stayed focused and moti

As the session winds down and deadlines loom, Speaker Jinkins says she's staying focused not on the constraints of the clock or the calendar, but on who is being helped by the work done in Olympia.

Lots of stuff happening in Week 7 of the legislative session. Speaker Jinkins touches on some of the big topics of the week, and discusses how despite different approaches to the state budget between the House and Senate

It's House of Origin Cutoff week in the Legislature and this year, the "five o'clock bill" didn't end up getting a vote on the House floor. Speaker Jinkins discusses the short-term disappointment, but also why she's opti

This is the week when the House of Representatives shifts gears and moves from holding public hearings on bills to debating and voting on many of those bills on the House floor. In today's podcast, Speaker Laurie Jinkins

With H.R. 1, the federal government has created a disaster with regards to health care access and affordability, food assistance, and more here in Washington state. This is on top of the Trump Tariffs and inflation that

Another US citizen was killed by federal agents in Minnesota last week, and communities here and across the country are living in fear from harmful and malevolent actions by ICE. Speaker Jinkins discusses what bills are

Washington House Speaker Laurie Jinkins talks about the tone she is setting for the 2026 session, which started with her opening day remarks on January 12. As House Democrats work to protect Washington values from harmfu

The 2025 session adjourned on Sunday, April 27th. In this final episode of The Speaker’s Scoop (until next January), Speaker Laurie Jinkins looks back on what she calls the most challenging session since her election to

This week, Speaker Laurie Jinkins talks about opposite-house cutoff, five o'clock bills, conference committees, concurrences -- the hectic give and take that characterizes the final days of a legislative session.

This week, Speaker Jinkins talks about Opposite House cutoff, the next major turning point for the 2025 session. She also offers her thoughts on Speaker Emeritus Frank Chopp, her predecessor in the speakership, whose dea

With a little over four weeks left to go in the session, Speaker Jinkins is thinking about the many steps that need to happen to get a final budget agreement, pass it in both chambers, and get it to the governor’s desk f

This week, Speaker Laurie Jinkins is focused squarely on the Legislature's next, and biggest, task: crafting and passing an operating budget -- a moral document -- that exemplifies consistent Democratic values despite a

It’s House of Origin Cutoff, an important deadline in the session, so Speaker Jinkins only had 56 seconds to chat with us.

Speaker Laurie Jinkins discusses the transition in Olympia to full-time floor action this week, and recounts her discussion with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray about the unprecedented threat posed by actions of the new federal a

It's great to be in the majority, and be able to pass good policies that help people thrive and move Washington forward. Democrats in the state legislature have gotten to do a lot of that over the past few years. But whe

In today's installment of The Speaker's Scoop, Speaker Jinkins talks about two hard deadlines legislators are facing -- policy cutoff and fiscal cutoff -- and the impact they have on the fate of bills. She also talks abo

In today's installment of The Speaker's Scoop, Speaker Jinkins gets, in her words, a little wonky, discussing how Washington found itself in a very difficult budget year, the inequity and inefficiency of Washington's reg

In today's installment of The Speaker's Scoop, Speaker Jinkins explains some ins and outs of how a state budget gets created, and talks about some options facing lawmakers during a challenging budget session.

In today's installment of this new series, Speaker Laurie Jinkins talks about the quickening pace of the session, the teamwork and collegiality needed to accomplish good things for Washingtonians, and the weekly Democrat
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