Dustin Hurst reports that, while it may already be tough to get a tax hike through the Idaho Capitol, lawmakers tried Thursday to make it even more difficult to do so.

The measure, which would have proposed a constitutional amendment requiring the Legislature get a two-thirds vote to approve tax or fee increases, failed to clear that threshold itself. Representatives voted 37-32 on the measure, not clearing the 47-vote minimum needed to ask a constitutional question.