TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The sweeping change from the midterm elections gave Arizona Democrats control of the Governor’s office and both Houses of the Arizona Legislature for the first time in 60 years. We asked the new Senate President—who is from Tucson—how Democrats will use the clout they've been waiting for for so long.
Democratic Senator Priya Sundareshan will be the new Senate President. She says with Republicans in control Democratic bills went nowhere.
“In my 4 years I've had one bill receive a committee hearing, and so that's generally how it has operated. So that does mean that we have many years of Democratic bills that have never received a committee hearing, let alone go through the process that we have this large backlog that now that we're in charge, we finally have the chance to hear those bills.”
She says now those bills will get a hearing.
“Now that does not mean that we will completely leave Republicans out. I just want to make clear that we want to hear their good ideas and we want to work with them on our good ideas. And so there will be a lot of our bills to, to work through that backlog before we might, uh, you know, turn over to them.”
She says Democrats will...