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They said was nonfiscal, even though theyve been saying the collective bargaining language was fiscal all along, which is why they didnt do this early on, and they passed it in the course of a few seconds on the senate floor. so youre talking about five or six decades worth of workers rights stomped out in a matter of minutes in the state senate. obviously we are very upset about this. we actually suggested they break up the nonfiscal stuff, which is what we suggested in the beginning, they said...

Repair bill passes, tempers will cool, and we will find a way to continue to work together, to help grow our economy. >> reporter: but right now, that stalemate apparently still ongoing. the democratic senators i spoke to yesterday after watching the government -- the governors speech, they were saying that they are not willing to budge just yet. everything comes down to that collective bargaining issue. they say the governor does not need to remove any of the rights that the union workers now h...

Pedaling so fast. chris christie, a man -- he said i love collective bargaining. not paraphrasing, that was his phrase, i love collective bargaining. >> in fact, i love collective bargaining. >> yeah. in ohio, republican governor john kasich is trying to pull his own scott walker. john kasich has such huge republican majorities in his legislature, you would think he had no problem doing whatever union busting he wants. but republicans, this is interesting, republicans initially lost the union st...

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>> sorry, do the right thing, do the right thing, you mean go ahead with these plans that some people call union busting? >> look. i think the most important thing is youve got to get these expenditures under control for these public sector -- the benefits. there was a study that just came out this week by more liberal economist than me that says these are the unfunded liabilities of the health care and the pension benefits of public employees at the state and local level, closing in on $2 trill...

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>> the money out of the coffers and finally starting to invest it back into the community, for the investments that this administration has made. >> theyre backing unions! now youre going to -- >> the union busting has nothing to do with deficits, it has nothing to do with stimulating growth. its all about rewarding the corporate special interests who put these republican governors in office and i think the american people are seeing right through that. but this, again, i think credit is due to ...

Union-busting bill but not before the assembly democratic leader peter barka filed a complaint questioning the legality of the passage of that bill last night in the senate. >> we ran on this. we were going to get the fiscal house in order. this is what we ran in our elections. this is how we picked 14 seats up from you guys. >> the gig is up. and this charade youve been pulling on the people of wisconsin is over. with this bill they now know this is not a budget repair bill. >> and you need to ...

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