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Last Updated on Friday, 20 May 2011 01:32 Written by rslcpol Friday, 20 May 2011 01:32
From Tennessee Report:
Senate Republicans appeared to be barreling toward a vote to approve a $30.8 billion budget Thursday night — until Senate Democrats caucused.
The result: no budget vote in the Senate on Thursday.
Democrats simply weren’t in the mood to be rushed on the matter, as could be heard in the hallway outside the third-floor conference room at Legislative Plaza where they were meeting.
At one point, Sen. Joe Haynes, D-Nashville, said the Republicans couldn’t pass the budget without the Democrats present on the Senate floor.
“They can’t convene the session without us,” Haynes was heard telling his colleagues. “They can’t get a quorum.”