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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Legislature has overridden Gov. Doug Burgum\u2019s veto of a bill that would prohibit state officials from mandating face coverings. Representatives voted 66-27 Thursday to override the second-term Republican governor. The Senate voted 32-15 later in the day. The bill received broad support in both chambers in the Republican-led Legislature, In his veto message, Burgum said North Dakota law assigns the governor the responsibility to \u201cminimize or avert the adverse effects of a disaster or emergency.\u201d Bill sponsors have argued there was no proof that masks work to slow the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s House has overridden Gov. Doug Burgum\u2019s veto of a bill that would prohibit state officials from mandating face coverings. Representatives voted 66-27 Thursday to override the second-term Republican governor. The Senate, will hold its own override vote later in the afternoon.<\/strong> The bill received broad support in both chambers in the Republican-led Legislature, In his veto message, Burgum said North Dakota law assigns the governor the responsibility to \u201cminimize or avert the adverse effects of a disaster or emergency.\u201d Bill sponsors have argued there was no proof that masks work to slow the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Update BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Legislature has overridden Gov. Doug Burgum\u2019s veto of a bill that would prohibit state officials from mandating face coverings. Representatives voted 66-27 Thursday to override the second-term Republican governor. The Senate voted 32-15 later in the day. The bill received broad support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224054","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=224054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224087,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224054\/revisions\/224087"}],"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=224054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}