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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Ind. Gov't. - Ball in Bosma's court after Governor speaks [Updated]
The Governor gave a brief statement to the press at 3:15 (listen to the mp3 here) indicating that "Republicans should to drop the right-to-work bill" and that then he expected the Democrats would return. See Mary Beth Schneider's IndyStar story here.
[More] Once they get an assurance that right-to-work is dead, if one is forthcoming, only enough Dems have to come to the Chamber tonight and vote "present" to create the quorum, which I think is 2/3 of the membership. (This could otherwise be problematic, as apparently some Dems actually are out-of-state by now.)
Once the chair sees a quorum, the outstanding committee reports can "go across the front desk" and will become eligible for 2nd reading tomorrow. Otherwise, they will die at midnight tonight.
[Updated at 7:48 pm] Maybe not so simple as above. Eric Bradner of the Evansville C&P has just tweeted: "The 37 missing Indiana House Democrats are together in Illinois right now. They say this is about more than right to work."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 22, 2011 04:09 PM
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