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The statehouse, lower chamber of the house will be in session tomorrow in special session at which theyre expected to pass it, and of course the senate was able to pass this because for nonfiscal measures, they need a smaller quorum than they do for fiscal measures. for fiscal measures, they need at least one democrat to be present. by declaring this nonfiscal, they were able to vote without any democrats being present. democrats are up in arms. they say it was illegal. they say it violated the ...

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It to the senate, then voted on it in the senate. the statehouse, lower chamber of the house will be in session tomorrow in special session at which theyre expected to pass it, and of course the senate was able to pass this because for nonfiscal measures, they need a smaller quorum than they do for fiscal measures. for fiscal measures, they need at least one democrat to be present. by declaring this nonfiscal, they were able to vote without any democrats being present. democrats are up in arms. ...

Walker, a republican, taking to the "wall street journal" today and writing its a bold political move, but changes, he says, are modest. fox news contributor karl rove is the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to president bush, good morning to you down there in florida karl. what do you make of this move last night, what happens today? >> well, it shouldnt have caught anybody by surprise. since the beginning, the republican majority has had the ability to do this. theyve had -- the...

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 stripping was a fiscal issue, but tonight in order to try to pul...

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Force them to more members, politically vulnerable members vote yes. they were hoping it would make it an issue in the next election. others said no, thats what they want us to do to create a 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 quo...

Signing ceremony. it wont be published that quickly. the secretary of state here in wisconsin is one of the few democrats to hold statewide office here. he has the option of delaying the publication of this law for as much as ten days and he is taking every minute of it. there are all sorts of legal challenges coming out against the bill. there was one that was quickly rejected by the judge. they are challenging it on the grounds that it violated the open meetings law tha. also challenging it wa...

Vote on this without the democrats being back in the state to have the quorum we thought they needed in order to vote on this? >> reporter: lawrence, you said it. this is an interesting parliamentary tactic. i am not clear how this fits into the rules of the wisconsin legislature, because what they did, they all did this within the past hour, the senate republicans created a conference committee, a house senate conference committee which usually as you know reconciles differing versions of bills...

Nonfiscal measures, they need a smaller quorum than they do for fiscal measures. for fiscal measures, they need at least one democrat to be present. by declaring this nonfiscal, they were able to vote without any democrats being present. democrats are up in arms. they say it was illegal. they say it violated the rules of the chamber. they are asking the attorney general to get involved, the attorney general a republican, but we will have to see where that goes, because this is on track for it to...