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GOP Rep. Jennifer Decker of Waddy looks on as Rep. DJ Johnson of Owensboro tells a Senate committee about the significant additions made to House Bill 139, which started as a bipartisan elections clean-up bill.
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The Kentucky elections bill now combines elements from other stalled legislation, increasing maximum political contributions, restricting forms of voter ID and allowing more partisanship in judicial races.
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    What are the consequences of environmental deregulation? The Trump administration has done away with the “endangerment finding,” an EPA process that had identified six greenhouse gases as dangerous to human health under the Clean Air Act.
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    Episode 27 of our series, “Democracy Optimist,” hosted by University of Kentucky election law and voting rights research professor Joshua Douglas.
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