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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Former Lawmakers Analyze Legislative Session
Description: Lou DiVizio opens the show with updates on several items in the state legislature, including concern from democrats over federal budget plans that threaten to cut Medicaid funding.Then, Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland asks two former lawmakers how this year’s legislative session is shaping up. Former state senators Mark Moores and Eric Griego discuss the state's budget and a package of crime bills that have hit the governor's desk. Then, the pair consider how lobbyist dollars are tipping the scales at the Roundhouse as legislators debate environmental and health-care-system reform bi...