Posted on 08/12/2003 4:27:21 PM PDT by harpu
After hours of backroom meetings, seventeen Senators convened to sanction their eleven colleagues in New Mexico. Senator Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound) introduced a resolution imposing fines to be paid out of private funds beginning August 14. The fines would begin at $1,000 a day and double per day up to $5,000 per day until the end of the second called-session.
After parliamentary inquiry by Senator Ken Armbrister (D-Victoria), Nelson moved adoption. Although there were no apparent objections, the record shows that Armbrister voted no.
The Senate acted upon a letter from Attorney General Greg Abbott concurring with an internal memo prepared by attorney Spencer Reid. The memo quotes the Constitution saying that remaining members can compel attendance "under such penalties as each House may provide."
Let's see...50% (a collection agency rate) of $57k (accumulated fines per senator) x 11 (Chicken D's) = $313,500 (not a bad collection bounty)
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