Posted on 02/21/2011 6:53:48 AM PST by FTJM
Hundreds of protesters continue to occupy the capitol, and 14 Democratic state senators remain roosted in Illinois, stalling consideration of his budget-repair bill. But Gov. Scott Walker, a first-term Republican, tells National Review Online that he will not blink. “By the end of this week, we will have a bill passed,” he pledges.
Walker is confident that he can pressure the on-the-run politicians to return and secure passage of his plan, which would drastically reduce the collective-bargaining power of public-sector unions and force state employees to put 5.8 percent of their salaries toward their pensions and pay 12.6 percent of their health-care premiums.
“We are looking at legal options to compel the senators to come back,” Walker says. “They have no endgame. They don’t know what they are doing. They got caught up in the hysteria and decided to run, but that’s not how this works. You have got to be in the arena.”
Bringing up hot-button legislation while the Democrats are gone is another arrow in Walker’s quiver. Though the Wisconsin constitution requires three-fifths of the senate to be present to pass fiscal legislation, a simple majority of 17 members constitutes a quorum for other bills in the 33-seat state senate. So the 19 GOP senators who remain in Madison can pass any number of bills while their Democratic colleagues are on the lam, and Republicans are a majority in the assembly, too. “They can hold off, but there is a whole legislative agenda that Republicans in the senate and assembly can start acting on that only requires simple majorities,” Walker warns.“If they want to do their jobs, and have a say, they better show up.”
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Git 'er done!! Now we just need to see ALL the Senate GOPers show the same spine Walker is showing.
Abolish public sector unions
They’d only need 17 state senators for that quorum
May God Bless Gov. Scott Walker for holding his ground. Amen.
Thats not much diversity is it?
I understand that some protestors are camping out overnight inside the capital. Can’t they be legally evicted or arrested?
Dr, Louis Sanner
Northeast Family Medical Center
3209 Dryden Drive
Madison, WI, 53704
Phone Number: (608) 241-9020
Wanted: Wisconsin Wussies.
Do you happen to have an email address and/or Fax number? Heh, Heh, Heh
BTTT
I love the idea of just passing the other legislation without them. How about passing a law that says legislators who are absent without a doctors excuse lose their staff for the rest of the year?
Thats not much diversity is it?
As diverse as MSNBC, NBC, CNN, ABC, CBS...
You mean to tell me there isn’t one blueish dog in the bunch that couldn’t be bribed into showing up for this one session? I find that hard to believe...
Do you happen to have an email address and/or Fax number? Heh, Heh, Heh
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see the Wisconsin Sate Journal regarding the Medical Sick Out Excuses being scrutnized. The AP article came out at 6:45 AM, the Minneapolis Star newspaper picked it up at 8:32AM. Just thought you would like to know the doctor in question is mentioned.
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