RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — After falling just one vote short in their efforts Monday night to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a North Carolina back-to-classroom bill, Republicans in the Senate say they are going to vote Wednesday on reconsidering the veto override.
A North Carolina legislator says he wasn’t on the Senate floor for the close veto override vote on legislation mandating the reopening of public schools because he had to work for his full-time employer.
Hoke County Democrat Ben Clark got a leave of absence for Monday’s session. He was one of three Senate Democrats who had voted last month for the legislation that Cooper had vetoed.
The Senate override likely would have been successful had two of the three Democrats stuck to supporting the measure. Only one did.
The bill’s chief sponsor lamented “flip-flopping senators” after the unsuccessful override vote.
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