Posted on 07/01/2009 12:59:36 PM PDT by SmithL
State senators didn't balance the budget Tuesday night, but their failure came only after some tense moments and a rare public scolding by one senator of another.
At the center were three bills, already approved in a bipartisan fashion by the Assembly, which would have freed up enough cash to temporarily stave off the need to issue IOUs to pay state bills. All 25 Senate Dems ultimately voted for them; none of the 15 Senate Reeps did.
For 45 minutes, the clerk dutifully called the roll of the senators who had yet to vote. That consisted of Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, who never voted either way. At one point, Senate majority leader Dean Florez of Shafter ordered senators to sit down and stay in their seats.
That prompted Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks, to rise and inquire where it said in the rules that senators had to stay seated. "I'm just checking, Mr. President," Cox said with a twinkle in his eye. "I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt."
The remark drew laughter -- and a rebuke from Sen. Mark Leno, D-S.F.
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And Leno should know about being a pain in the butt
It’s time for Arnold to step up. He should craft a “take it or leave it” budget, and have someone in the house submit it.
He should use his bully pulpit to force the legislature to either pass it unchanged (and threaten in no uncertain terms to veto it if it comes to him with even a single change).
SIT!!
STAY!!!
lol
what a circus..
I was waiting for them to bring the cots in and see if they were going to “work” around the clock, like they did last time.
What a pathetic bunch of (idiots) politicians.
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