CONCORD — The 2025 Legislative session ended Wednesday when Gov. Kelly Ayotte ran the table, as the House sustained every one or her 11 vetoes of House bills.
The vetoed legislation ranged from book challenges in public schools to requiring high schools to show anti-abortion videos. None of the override votes was close.
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