JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have convened to consider overriding more than a dozen vetoes made by Gov. Jay Nixon.

The Republican-led Legislature opened the annual veto session a little after noon Wednesday with a goal of overriding the Democratic governor on several bills affecting workers’ paychecks.

A two-thirds vote of each chamber is required to override a veto. Republicans hold the supermajorities necessary to do that, so long as they don’t have more than a few dissenters.

Among the bills up for override votes are measures cutting unemployment benefits, barring local minimum wages and eliminating college scholarships for some immigrants.

Republicans face a longer shot to override Nixon’s veto of a right-to-work bill barring mandatory union fees.