sloppy in their haste in trying to get this done. we are going to be looking at those options and we will be making an announcement after that is decided upon. you know, the story now isn t so much what we re going to do or where we stand, we stand with the workers as we always have. it is where the republicans are, and this watershed moment, the republicans, 18 of them, showed they would rather side with big corporate interest instead of the working people, people who are making and living off a low wage, and only have power by banding together into a union. today they decided to vote against that and against the middle class. senator larson, what now happens to what remains of the so-called budget repair bill which does require, as i understand it, the higher threshold for quorum in the senate, which means it requires democrats to actually be in the chamber in order to have a quorum big enough to vote on it. right. will you return to the
ahead. my understanding is one possible remedy is they can be forced to take the action again with proper notice in the light of day, so the citizens can actually see this destructive legislation for what it is. but my understanding that one of the recourses available is to make the public body retake its action according to the open meetings law. we ll be pursuing that heavily, i am sure. representative mason, who orders that. does that require you to go to a court to have a judge order that? well, i promise you as soon as we re off here, we re going to be exploring every avenue that s available to make sure the public s rights are recognized in this whole process. the next legislative stage in the senate would be to take up the actual so-called budget repair bill with this union provision of it severed from it. what does the senate need to do on that part of the bill and do they still need a quorum for that that would include
banding together into a union. today they decided to vote against that and against the middle class. senator larson, what now happens to what remains of the so-called budget repair bill which does require as i understand it the higher threshold for quorum in the senate, which means it requires democrats to actually be in the chamber in order to have a quorum big enough to vote on it. right. will you return to the chamber, therefore deliver that quorum that allows them to vote on the remainder of the bill? that s why i m not going to be in wisconsin much longer, lawrence. this is something where they could still try and do that. they proved themselves to be deceptive. they would rather put special interest instead of people i mentioned just the other day on your show, talking about all the things they ve done, shutting down public debates, shutting down the debate in the assembly, shutting down the public hearings, closing out the
how do you fight back, or is this a fate acomply at this point? there s a couple things we have to keep an eye on. this could end up in court and if we went back today, the option is still there to round us up, bring up the budget repair bill, take the language they passed last night and reinsert it in the budget repair bill. that covers their behinlds in case they end up in court. we re keeping an eye on that. eventually what happened last night was the start of the loudest debate the republicans in wisconsin will ever have to face in their lives. carl bernstein also has a question. i was struck. i m going to say something, by the parallels between the hearing in washington and what s going on in wisconsin. that has to do with an ahis or the schism, a lack of a sense of history on the part of legislators. the history of collective bargaining in this country, the history of labor unions, the contribution that they have made to safety in the workplace, decent wages for workers. an
leader among those targeted joins me on the phone. senator, that would shake me in my boots. when did you get this? we think there were a number of them that came last night to every republican senator. they are kind of combing through them to see if there are similar ones that were sent even earlier than that. neil: so they are targeting republicans and those that were for this legislation that many of these protestors deem to be anti-union? it appears that was the common thread. anybody that was support of the budget repair bill. neil: has it given your colleagues in the seenl pause because they have not in h chance to vote on the measure you guys approved late last night because they ve been blocked from entering the assembly? they are on the floor debating it now.