Live updates: Special session starts with competing proposals to fix budget shortfall, censure resolution

The Colorado legislature gaveled in Thursday for its latest special session this one to address a yawning budget gap caused by changes to the federal tax code passed by Congress and President Donald Trump At the outset the session is expected to last five days or so This story will be updated throughout the day p m update Democratic lawmakers are preparing a resolution to censure a Republican legislator for his role in taking and sharing a picture of a Democratic colleague who was then the subject of private and constituents abuse The censure vote against Rep Ryan Armagost a Berthoud Republican is set for Friday morning Read a separate story about it here During a caucus meeting Thursday Democratic lawmakers mentioned they would never forgive Republican lawmakers for mocking Rep Yara Zokaie s appearance in a private group chat and they criticized Republican leadership for not notifying House leaders of Armagost s role in taking and sharing a picture of Zokaie Republican legislators will be able to respond during debate on the resolution Friday and Democrats braced for a populace fight and prepared to respond in kind Colorado lawmakers return to Capitol to fix budget as they tangle over Trump tax bill and solutions This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e input if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i