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Change the immigration laws and loopholes. so easy to do. this after a scathing inspector generals report after the department of homeland security confirming what democrats have been saying about the horrific conditions at migrant detention centers. the report even quoted a facility manager who described the situation there as a, quote, ticking time bomb. joining us now is "the new york times" correspondent annie kwormy. we have a quorum from "the new york times" today. annie, let me ask you, t...

Well. theres something called a quorum in every legislative body. there has to be a minimum number of elected officials in the chamber itself in order to do any official business including voting. the issue is not whether if these 11 people voted against this bill, which would effectively cap greenhouse gas emissions, it would still pass, if there was any vote, it would pass, there are enough democrats in the oregon state senate. what they are doing is trying to essentially go back 30 years in b...

Expensive ways to address reduction in cover emissions and all were saying is it shouldnt cost manufacturing jobs raise the gas tax by 20 cents gallon to start out with and raise natural gas prices for people who heat their home by almost 50%. we think theres a better way to reduce carbon emissions and holding out and only way to stop this vote is by not providing a quorum for democrats to roll over us. >> okay, and so governor has tried calling you and youve called her become and she didnt retu...

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Boots are for walking, youre flat wrong, mr. president. you send the state police to come get me, hell is coming to visit you personal ly. >> in an extraordinary move last night, she ordered the state police to bring them back to work. >> it is an extraordinary move, would you but i would also argue that the challenges we face as a state and a nation around tackling climate change also require extraordinary circumstances. >> reporter: the wife of one of the republican senators told cnn the senat...

I would argue that the challenges we face as a state and a nation around tackling climate change require extraordinary circumstances. >> reporter: the wife of one of the senators said the senators went out of state to idaho. >> this is an embarrassment to the state of oregon. >> reporter: the underlying reason for the standoff, democrats have a super majority, they can pass legislation without a vote from a single republican. in order to do any of the peoples business they need at least two repu...

Tackling climate change also require extraordinary circumstances. >> reporter: the wife of one of the republican senators told cnn the senators went out of state to idaho. >> this is an embarrassment to the state of oregon. >> reporter: the underlying reason for the standoff, democrats have a simple majority which means they can pass legislation without a vote from a single republican. but in order to do any of the peoples business, they need at least two republican senators to be in attendance ...

There are in the minority, democrats, do the very same thing. they walked out of the legislative session over redistricting and she said that was great want that was very appropriate at the time. but now, when the minority is the republican party, shes opposed to it ands its their duty to do the same thing. >> ethan, that is true. and oregon senator says this, were not going to provide a quorum to pass a progressive, liberal agenda, the that damage the constituents from our districts. they say i...

Standoff. democrats have a super majority which means they can pass legislation without a vote from a single republican, but in order to do any of the peoples business they need at least two republican senators to be in attendance for a quorum. state police say they will politely ask senators to return and accompany them if need be, if they cant find two senators to agree they would need permission from the superintendent to use handcuffs. >> this sessionens june 30th and if theyre i unable to c...

Stalemate, looked bleaker than day one. state senators had to the to d. all 11 republicans in the senate went awol yesterday, leaving oregon rather than voting on a cap and trade bill a governor calls a must. >> it would of course a historic for oregon, historic for the country and frankly, historic for the world. unfortunately, senate republicans failed to show up and failed to do their jobs. >> governor katebrown took the extraordinary step to call on the oregon state patrol to find the republ...