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Nebraska Legislators Set to Start 2022 Session

Nebraska Legislators Set to Start 2022 Session

Senator Tom Briese Photo: WNAX


Nebraska state Senators return to Lincoln on Wednesday for the start of the 2022 legislative session.

Senator Tom Briese of Boone says they again have lots to deal with….

Briese says they have to decide how to spend hundreds of millions of federal dollars….

Briese says there is general consensus of the best use of those federal dollars….

This will be the so called “short” session of the legislatures with the sixty-day calendar scheduled to wrap up in late April.

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