{"id":161253,"date":"2019-01-02T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161253"},"modified":"2019-01-02T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:59:35","slug":"2019-nd-legislature-session-starts-jan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161253","title":{"rendered":"2019 ND legislative session starts Jan 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota lawmakers will face tough spending choices when they convene Thursday, January 3, 2019, to kick off the new legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s economy is slowly emerging from a years-long rut due to depressed oil and agriculture prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-123853\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BurgumDougOfficialND-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BurgumDougOfficialND-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BurgumDougOfficialND-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BurgumDougOfficialND.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>. Doug Burgum begins the session with his State of the State address in the afternoon.<\/strong> The first-term Republican governor is expected to talk about the challenges facing North Dakota and its fiscal health.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum unveiled a $14.3 billion budget last month that increases state spending 5 percent. Lawmakers will use that as their budgetary starting point.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything in the session is about the budget. Notable bills so far include a proposal that would give the Legislature final say on successful citizen-led initiatives that amend the state constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota lawmakers will face tough spending choices when they convene Thursday, January 3, 2019, to kick off the new legislative session. The state\u2019s economy is slowly emerging from a years-long rut due to depressed oil and agriculture prices. . Doug Burgum begins the session with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161256,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161253\/revisions\/161256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}