How is there not a Quorum in WI if only 14 are not present?

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[magdalena]

1. Budgets need 20 senators present for quorum.

There are only 19 republicans.

[Tx4obama]

2. Because...

There are 33 senate seats in the Wisconsin senate.
19 are republican, 14 are democratic.
They need 2/3 3/5 for a quorum which would be 20 senators.

Edited to add...

Voting share
Republicans: 57.5% (less than 60%, therefore not enough for a quorum without one democrat)
Democrats: 42.4%

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. and they need the 2/3

just for fiscal votes.

Of course, the next thing they'll do is break off the non-fiscal portions and vote on those while the Dems are out of state. They tried to pass voter ID last week, but it turned out that had to have a fiscal component, so they couldn't vote on it.

Assholes.

[virgogal]

4. Wouldn't 2/3 be 22 needed for a quorum?

[magdalena]

5. It's not 2/3 it's 3/5. n/t

[virgogal]

8. Thanks.

[Tx4obama]

6. Oops. I made a boo boo. 20 is 3/5 like magdalena said :) n/t

[magdalena]

7. Heh I thought it was 2/3 too off the top of my head til I did the math lol. n/t

[virgogal]

9. Thanks.