State’s GOP lawmakers lobby for special session to address COVID-19

Several Republican lawmakers are calling on Gov. Jay Inslee to convene a special session of the legislature to address the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing financial crisis in the public and private sector that has resulted. The lawmakers say they can participate in a special session while also honoring social distancing measures that have been put in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus, now linked to the deaths of at least 1,037…