Senator hopeful of compromise with governor

State Sen. Brad Lager may have been unhappy and disappointed last week after Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed the "Workplace Discrimination" bill. But he wasn't surprised.

On March 7 - the day before the Senate gave final approval to the House version of the proposed law, and the Wednesday before lawmakers began this year's spring break, which ended Monday - Lager told reporters he expected the governor to "veto it much like he did last year. Hopefully, (then) we can actually sit down and have a discussion about what he'll take and what he'll sign, and we can, actually, come back after spring break and move a bill that he will actually sign, that can actually become law."

This is the second year that Lager, R-Savannah, has sponsored the bill proposing changes to state laws affecting workplace issues.