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Escalated that battle in wisconsin to pull a vote using a technique that allows them to vote on something like labor rights, basic labor rights, as long as it doesnt involve a fiscal issue, a budget or tax issue, they are able to have a vote without a quorum of democrats present. lets go back to ed. looks like cambodia back in 70 where one side says to hell with you guys, were going over the top. >> thats exactly -- [ audio going in and out ] >> okay. we know where ed stands. he mesa forceful cr...

Passage of the collective bar ganning limits violated the rules. >> were in court right now seeking to invalidate the conference committee report before us. >> if you should be mad at anybody, it should be the senate democrats g. the senate democrats who fled the state, talk about lack of democracy. >> we have a quorum. >> the legislation was abruptly muscled through joint conference committee last night, when the republicans stripped fiscal language from the bill limiting collective bargaining....

Detonated it today. after republican governor scott walker admitted yesterday that he would negotiate with democrats on his union stripping bill, after a republican source tells nbc news that the governor said to republicans in the legislature today he was willing to compromise on union stripping, after public support for the governor and union stripping measure started low and then cratered from there, after weeks and weeks of large demonstrations in wisconsin against the governor and the repub...

Sloppy in their haste in trying to get this done. we are going to be looking at those options and we will be making an announcement after that is decided upon. you know, the story now isnt so much what were going to do or where we stand, we stand with the workers as we always have. it is where the republicans are, and this watershed moment, the republicans, 18 of them, showed they would rather side with big corporate interest instead of the working people, people who are making and living off a ...

Ahead. >> my understanding is one possible remedy is they can be forced to take the action again with proper notice in the light of day, so the citizens can actually see this destructive legislation for what it is. but my understanding that one of the recourses available is to make the public body retake its action according to the open meetings law. well be pursuing that heavily, i am sure. >> representative mason, who orders that. does that require you to go to a court to have a judge order th...

Banding together into a union. today they decided to vote against that and against the middle class. >> senator larson, what now happens to what remains of the so-called budget repair bill which does require as i understand it the higher threshold for quorum in the senate, which means it requires democrats to actually be in the chamber in order to have a quorum big enough to vote on it. >> right. >> will you return to the chamber, therefore deliver that quorum that allows them to vote on the rem...

On it without a quorum present. that meant that the 14 senate democrats who fled, their votes simply werent needed. the republicans passed it and now, as you can tell, the folks still remaining there in the capitol building are not very happy about it. wisconsins governor is applauding the move. he says that senate democrats have had three weeks to debate the bill. they were offered repeated opportunities to come home, which they refused. in order to move the state forward i applaud the legislat...

Give two hours notice. the minority leader has already gotten the wheels in motion to make the complaint. the republicans argument was the business was nonfiscal which allowed the state to cast it without a quorum. but governor walker spent the last three weeks saying they had to get rid of collective bargaining because of the budget. which he pushed today as well. >> this will allow us to move forward to balance the budget. and it is part of the budget. >> you cant not pass it saying its not a ...

The actual so-called budget 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 ...

Quorum, then pass the whole bill, fiscal and nonfiscal. so they were debating this as this was going on. there was a bit of a divide. they felt they had wavering members, members that wanted to go back. there were some members whose resolve was cracking as it were about staying out, staying, denying the quorum, and i think that that crack really split wide open tonight. but as it turned out, they didnt need the democrats, one or two that might have gone back, to go back at all. >> we have a st...