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It was central to the fiscal health of the state, they're saying. they're now saying it isn't a fiscal issue at all or else they couldn't pass it with this majority. so they can't have it both ways. either it's a fiscal issue in which case they need the super majority for the quorum or not and their argument falls apart entirely so it seems to me they'll rush it through and lose the public opinion debate and this is going to be a lot of screaming and shouting and legal challenge, as well, in the days and weeks ahead. interesting to watch. what do you anticipate later tonight? will they move it...

In chicago and came up with a way to bypass the missing senators. let me explain how. when this was part of the state budget it was considered a fiscal bill, a fiscal bill needed a quorum of 20. in the senate, in wisconsin, there are only 19 republicans, so they needed a democrat. they couldn't get any. they have stripped the piece of the bill out, made it a standalone bill so it relates only to collective bargaining so they claim it is no longer a fiscal bill and need a quorum of only a simple majority with their 19 republicans, so they took it out, made it a standalone bill and passed it, 18...

Your holdout has been and the reason you went to illinois is over the collective bargaining portion of the bill. now that that is behind us, you say you're on your way back to madison. will you convene for a quorum and vote for those give-backs on the pension and health plan? >> these were things in the bill that just passed. they attacked on collective bargaining. we have to see, obviously republicans have proved themselves untrustworthy with this tactic so we have to decide if this is something -- how we're going to go back. >> it's possible you guys won't support that proposition now? >> we...

Welcome back and we're going to go back to wisconsin in a moment. if you haven't heard the breaking news, the wisconsin public senate out of nowhere surprising everybody passing a standalone bill that deprives civil service workers in wisconsin of the collective bargaining right everybody has been fighting over for seemingly months now. what they did was take that issue out of the budget bill so they no longer needed the supermajority quorum. i know that sounds like a lot of league gobbledygook. so the democrats are often chicago or illinois somewhere. they said we don't need you anymore and p...

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