After More Than 30 Years, the Leader of State Legislatures to Step Down

Governing: A decade ago, a dispute over health policy threatened to tear apart the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), a bipartisan group of state lawmakers that shares ideas and lobbies Congress.

Back in 2009, while Congress was still considering the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a majority of delegates at the group's annual meeting approved a resolution endorsing the measure. Then as now, Republican legislators opposed the health-care bill. The resolution threatened to drive them away from an organization they already viewed as dominated by Democrats.

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