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Doing it? if they can stop people from protesting by physically locking down that building, what do you think that will have? >> for won't. they are doing it because they have seen the polls now. both sides of the aisle on this issue they are losing this debate. the people support the rights. even at wisconsin i supported. they are checking out the debate. >> we have been hearing that republicans in the senate are not only trying to block pay to you, to democratic senators, they are trying to block pay to your staffers. do you have confirmation that that's happening? >> no, we heard about that...

Republicans have been looking at. and we saw those emotional words from the congresswoman there. so we know the impact that the debate has had and certainly the loss of these funds. >> right, tamron. it is a very emotional issue on both sides. to be clear, this part of the days long debate republicans and democrats have having on the continuing resolution to fund the government for the rest of the year. republicans, and also some democrats, are having continuous amendments, find places to cut more government spending. this was a measure spearheaded by congressman mike pence, a social conservat...

Republicans to tell their constituents is their supporters that they tried to tackle a -- an issue that's important to their base. >> mark murray, thanks for joining us and giving us more redales on this breaking news. after 30 years in office, new mexico's senator jeff bingeaman is stepping down from his post. he will not run for re-election in 2012. he was first elected in 1982. democrats say they're confident they will keep that senate seat, especially in the presidential year, president obama won new mexico with 57% of vote. other senators stepping down in 2012 include jim webb, arizona ...

The 27th senate district and they're willing to pay their fair share. they're more worried about losing their right to collective bargaining. that's what they're worried about that i've talked about. but again, the way this thing has been rammed through, or trying to be rammed through the legislature, democrats were left without a choice. the only option we had was to slow things down allow people to -- allow people to talk about this piece of legislation, and what it means to them was to pick up and leave wisconsin. >> democratic state senator jon erpenbach. i never thought i would interview ...

Responsible way to handle this. the leadership flee to illinois and teachers, according to some, quote, squirting the responsibility. >> we have schools closed across wisconsin which we did for the past couple of days. my kids are home today as well. that's the governor's responsibility. that's a direct result of how he introduced this budget repair bill and how he's gone across the process. he introduced it friday and wants it law yesterday. this is a major piece of legislation. we need to sit down, we need to talk about it, we need to get some people at the table who might disagree and forge...