The third day of the Colorado legislature’s special session moved along at a stutter-start pace Saturday, as leadership leaned on procedural rules to relieve partisan acrimony in the state House.

After moving to shut down Republicans’ lengthy opposition, House leadership shepherded through Democrats’ priority package of revenue-raising tax changes, sending them to the state Senate by Saturday afternoon. The tax bills, which targeted the wealthiest taxpayers and various corporate-friendly incentives, would raise $250 million as part of Democrats’ three-pronged plan to fill a $783 million budget hole ripped open by the tax bill signed by President Donald Trump last month.

Simultaneously, a smaller group of lawmakers and lobbyists worked to find a path forward on amending Colorado’s firs

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