Oregon Senate Republicans announce walkout over climate cap-and-trade bill
Source: The Oregonian
SALEM Republicans in the Oregon Senate plan to flee the Capitol to stop Democrats bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions, after the plan cleared a legislative budget committee Monday morning.
At an 11 a.m. floor session, just one Republican showed up: Sen. Tim Knopp of Bend. Democrats waited on the floor, as sergeants at arms searched Capitol offices to see if they could round up any other Republicans. But they were unable to find any, so Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, adjourned the chamber until Tuesday morning.
Under the state Constitution, a two-thirds majority of the Senate must be present to conduct business including voting on bills. That means Democrats, despite their supermajority, need at least two Republicans to be present.
The earliest the cap-and-trade bill would likely come up for a Senate floor vote is Wednesday, according to Senate Democrats.
In a statement, Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger Jr. of Grants Pass blamed the GOPs boycott in part on a parliamentary move by Courtney. With the climate bill before the Legislatures Joint Committee on Ways and Means earlier Monday, Courtney joined the committee to provide a crucial vote to pass it out of committee. Republicans took Democrats to task for the move, but it was clearly allowed under the Senates adopted rules and longstanding precedent, Secretary of the Senate Lori Brocker testified.
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Marthe48
(16,894 posts)Love your kids and grandkids. We are doomed by idiots.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,190 posts)Magoo48
(4,697 posts)cstanleytech
(26,224 posts)when it comes time to draw up the next budget with project money going to other places.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Is it time we take a page out of your playbook when it comes to abortion etc.?
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)captain queeg
(10,085 posts)And drag them back to do their job?
dustyscamp
(2,223 posts)And when we are not there they pass bills MFs
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/north-carolina-house-republicans-surprise-9-11-vote.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/matthewzeitlin/senate-republicans-just-passed-a-massive-tax-bill-in-the
christx30
(6,241 posts)They drove to Idaho, where they were protected by militia types, who said that Oregon could come get the senate republicans, but advised not to send men with families. It was a whole big thing.