thought it was an unusual thing to do and some members were not comfortable doing it right away but wanted to give the senate democrats a chance to come back. after one more time today we had a forced session in which none of the 14 senate democrats would appear and finally decided we had to go ahead and break it into two parts, which is unfortunate they ve been so adamant not participating but we had to take this unusual step. senator grothemman, will cai. you knew you could pass with a simple majority. why did you wait this long? what changed between yesterday and today. we just wanted to give the senate democrats a chance to return. i mean, every day there were rumors they were going to come back, you know, some of us talked to the senate democrats 0 an individual basis. they implied they wish they could come back here and every day there were rumors they were going to come back. there was one day we were told