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Last Updated on Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:31 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:00
Democrats have until 4pm to get back to the capitol.
From Wisconsin State Journal:
Republicans voted 19-0 to give the Democrats until 4 p.m. Thursday to appear before the Senate. The 14 Democrats are believed to be in Illinois. If the senators do not return by the deadline, the Senate agreed to find them “in contempt and disorderly behavior.”
Declared Fitzgerald: “They have pushed us to the edge of a constitutional crisis.”
The Senate also voted to institute a “call of the house,” which is the mechanism used to compel senators to return to the chamber.
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