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Legislative lookahead: Lawmakers debate pandemic relief, gas tax

caption: People wait for 15 minutes after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday, January 24, 2021, during a one-day pop up Covid-19 vaccine clinic at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle.
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People wait for 15 minutes after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday, January 24, 2021, during a one-day pop up Covid-19 vaccine clinic at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle.
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Washington lawmakers are debating a gas tax, the state's pandemic reopening plan and a lot more this week.

We're coming into the fourth week of this 105-day legislative session, and this week, there's a change in Gov. Jay Inslee's COVID reopening plans.

Inslee has been under a lot of pressure to take that step - namely from Republicans but also from some members within his own party.

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