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The vote may make it less likely the Legislature will reach an overall budget deal before the end of the special session on Friday.

Whether the Trump administration will enforce the federal ban on marijuana in Alaska remains ambiguous. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about cannabis policy at a hearing Tuesday. Rosenstein at times took a hard line.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski isn’t not happy with the fast-track process the Senate Majority leader is using to bring a health care bill to the floor without any hearings, she said. Murkowski, a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, would have a chance to work on the bill if it were going through the normal committee process. But it isn’t.

The unofficial results are out for the recall election of three Homer City Council members, but it’s too close to call until the vote is certified Friday. About 740 in-person absentee ballots were cast and another 80 were mailed out to absent voters.

Shooting suspect James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., is dead, President Trump says. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot in the hip; he’s one of five people who were taken to the hospital.

“If the subtleties become so much that the cuts are so deep, then all the sudden somebody is going to go, ‘What happened to that school district?’” warned Hoonah’s outgoing superintendent.

Clem Tillion was a Republican senator when the Permanent Fund was created. The 91-year-old has a message to lawmakers who want to reduce the PFD: Don’t think any changes you make are going to last.

The City and Borough of Juneau is urging Gov. Bill Walker to veto a bill opening the door to Uber and Lyft. The issue is local control: the legislation bars local governments from regulating the ride services.

The attorney general gave a fiery opening statement and answered senators’ questions for 2 1/2 hours. Democrats hammered him on FBI Director James Comey’s firing and for being generally evasive.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington. He is expected to field questions about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, the ongoing investigation of Russian contacts with Trump campaign and administration officials, and the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.