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The 2020 legislative session is now underway, and over the next four months, we’ll debate and vote on hundreds of pieces of legislation and write and pass a balanced budget. On the first day of the session, we gathered in a joint session to hear the governor’s proposals for both public policy and the budget for 2020.

One of the things that I liked in the governor’s State of the State was his push to eliminate unnecessary red tape, pointing out that Oklahoma’s administrative code is twice that of Kansas and 20 percent more than Missouri and New Mexico. Governor Stitt announced plans to call for...