Oregon Democrats Fear Lives at Risk as GOP Walkout Jeopardizes Bills.

Oregon Democrats are urging Republicans to return and vote on bipartisan bills that are at risk of dying because of a political standoff that has now lasted a month. The bills include measures aimed at reducing drug overdoses, mitigating wildfire risks, and shoring up seismically vulnerable dams. Republicans are boycotting the Senate over a bill on protections for abortion and transgender care, with Democrats saying it isn’t negotiable and minority Republicans insisting it die or be changed. If there is no compromise well before the session is constitutionally required to end by June 25, the hundreds of bills that haven’t passed both the House and Senate will die.