After more than a week of avoiding the state Capitol in a successful effort to avoid a vote on a controversial climate change bill, Republican senators in Oregon are expected to return and vote on a slate of pending legislation.

Oregon Senate Republican leader Herman Baertschiger said Friday that all of the 11 senators would be returning after Democrats assured them that the cap-and-trade legislation would not come to a vote.

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