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发帖数: 8175 | 1 MADISON (Reuters) – Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate passed the
most controversial portions of Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill
late on Wednesday, stripping out the sections that required the presence of
their 14 absent Democratic colleagues in the upper chamber.
In an 18-to-1 vote, the Senate approved the curbs on collective bargaining
by public employees that Walker has insisted are needed to help the state's
cash-strapped municipalities deal with a projected $1.27 billion drop in
state aid over the next two years.
The measure will now go to the Assembly, expected to vote on the matter on
Thursday.
The 43-year-old governor applauded the move, which came despite growing
signs the majority of Wisconsites don't back the measure.
Walker never mentioned the proposal on his official campaign website nor
debated it during his two-year campaign. It reverses long-standing policy in
Wisconsin, among the first states to give public employees union rights.
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"The Senate Democrats have had three weeks to debate this bill and were
offered repeated opportunities to come home, which they refused," he said in
a statement.
But Democratics blasted the move.
"It appears Republicans are violating their own word and ramming through the
most divisive piece of legislation in modern history without Democrats
present," Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the Democrats.
(Reporting by Jeff Mayer; writing by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Jerry
Norton) | P*V
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: MADISON (Reuters) – Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate passed the
: most controversial portions of Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill
: late on Wednesday, stripping out the sections that required the presence of
: their 14 absent Democratic colleagues in the upper chamber.
: In an 18-to-1 vote, the Senate approved the curbs on collective bargaining
: by public employees that Walker has insisted are needed to help the state's
: cash-strapped municipalities deal with a projected $1.27 billion drop in
: state aid over the next two years.
: The measure will now go to the Assembly, expected to vote on the matter on
: Thursday.
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发帖数: 2324 | 3 赞个屁啊，每个州都这样了天朝就无法超美了。
不过很佩服。看来民主制度的自我修正能力很强啊，我原来以为民主只会越来越糟糕的
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