Effort to move pay raise resolution out of committee fails in Senate

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An attempt to withdraw a resolution from committee that would have blocked a pay raise for state lawmakers failed in the Senate on Wednesday.

The Senate voted 21-3 to pull the resolution from committee, three votes short of the 24 needed to move it out of committee.

The motion to move the resolution out of committee was not debatable.

It would have been the first of two steps needed to expedite consideration of the resolution.

The Senate needed a second vote to move the resolution above the . . .

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