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Make to the pensions and health insurance. and since they werent voting on fiscal issues they were able to do that without the quorum while the 14 democratic senators were not there. they were in illinois. thats why they were able to do that last night. >> where door -- i dont know if you can hear me over the folks. where do things stand now? when will the state assembly vote on this version? >> reporter: whats going on right now is thousands and thousands of people outside the capitol grounds h...

When i listen to any republican or democrat complain about this, when you look at the cloture rules, we call this politics. republicans can complain, but trust me if the shoot was on the other foot, i guarantee 14 republicans would have fled the state. thats what happening in politics. >> if theyre not there, you cant have a quorum, cant have a vote. so obviously weakening the collective bargaining for workers. >> it does, and you dont use any tactics. 1 out of 13 workers in that state is unempl...

Hour. sources explain wisconsin requires a three-fifth quorum or 20 senators to proceed to votes on bills that are fiscal in nature. we talked about this on the panel. suchs those that impose taxes or appropriate funds. there are currently 19 republicans in the senate. one short of that quorum needed for a vote so the sources are telling fbn the two houses will conduct a conference committee beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern in the senate parlor to remove the fiscal portion of the bill, doing so le...

>> no, mr. chairman -- >> reporter: wisconsin senate republicans effectively did an end run in an 18-1 vote they approved that controversial measure, stripping public employee unions of collective bargaining rights. >> this has been building for three weeks. we were at the point now where we thought, you know, all indications were that the democrats were not returning any time soon. we needed to move the process forward. >> reporter: they did it with a legislative maneuver, by removing the propo...

Considered without a certain number of senators present. republicans needed at least one senate to show up to the senate in order to meet that numerical threshold. democrats fled the state so the quorum could not be reached, so the bill could not be voted on. then tonight with no warning, republicans announced that they took everything budget related out of what they were calling the budget bill, leaving only the union stripping provisions. republicans, of course, had insisted that union strippi...

The democrats left was because when you consider a financial bill or something with finances and money in it, you need a quorum. they needed one more, the republicans did, one more democrat in the house to consider it. well, so they took the money part out. they split it effectively and then they voted on it. and -- >> and then brought it to the senate. and now it has to go back to the assembly. >> exactly right. the collective bargaining rights are taken out for the most part in wisconsin. >> i...

Repair bill with this union provision of it severed from it. what does the senate need to do on that part of the bill and do they still need a quorum for that that would include democrats? >> yes, they clearly would need to have senate democrats present, because the requirement is you have to have three-fifths of those elected present to take that vote. >> well, representative barca, does that indicate to you then that senate democrats may continue to stay out of the state? >> no. i think, lawre...

Item, this bypasses the need for a quorum. bypasses the need for 20th senator to be present in the senate. they can move all of this language that the democrats so contest through the senate without any opposition. as this was moving through the committee, had you some of the democratic representatives, particularly representative pete barka shouting it was a violation of the open meetings law. saying that this was a raw abuse of power. now, as this moves into the senate, were getting reports th...

It. >> it looks as if it was a solution sitting out there. because under wisconsin law, and the constitution and precedence, there has been other cases in the past where definition of the word "face cat" was in question in wisconsin its extremely narrow. thats the part. fiscal issue where you have to have a quorum and democrat. where everything stops if democrats are hiding in illinois. if you strip out the fiscal issue, that is the present amount that members of the unions who would pay extra i...

But it was only when his remains were identified that have these lies were exposed. muhammad hamdani was a fellow american who gave his life for other americans. his life should not be identified as just a member of an ethnic group or just a member of a religion. but as an american who gave everything for his fellow americans. i yield back. >> were going to bring you much more from capitol hill over the course of the next hour. first to madison, wisconsin and the fallout from skom are calling th...