Wisconsin Assembly Underway, with Two Hours of Debate (FDL)

[FBaggins]

It shouldn’t be too long before the Wisconsin legislature finishes off a bill to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees. The State Assembly gaveled into session at 12:34pm CT.

Peter Barca, the Assembly Minority Leader and the one who could be seen shouting about the illegality of last night’s conference committee, just offered a motion to remove Jeff Fitzgerald as Speaker. So this is getting off to a rowdy start.

...snip (but Barca's quote is worth reading)...

There are enough protesters in the Capitol for the sound of the chanting to be heard on the Assembly floor.

Meanwhile, in a curious move, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau produced a new analysis of the bill, changed from the previous night, which includes more elements of the original budget repair bill. Nobody could produce a copy of the actual legislation in time for the conference committee session yesterday, leading to speculation that it was being written while the session was going on. The Director of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, Bob Lang, said that these omissions were just oversights, and the bill language remained the same throughout. Mm-hm.





http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/03/10/wisconsin-assembly-underway-with-two-hours-of-debate-on-public-employee-rights-stripping-bill/