Political

The dust has not yet cleared on last nights, actually, they finished around 2:00 am this morning, political coup. The republican takeover of the Senate changes everyone’s predictions how or when this session will end. It is too early to tell for sure since the Senators are now meeting in their caucuses to figure out what the next steps will be (we only have 5 days left in the 60 day session). All indications are that we are headed into a special session.

Republicans joined with 3 democrats to reach the 25 votes necessary to do whatever they wanted to do last night. The remaining 24 democrats put up a good fight but were unable to change the direction the republicans were taking them. This hijacking will lead to a certain level of distrust that wasn’t there before and is likely to slow the process down as legislators check and double check commitments to legislation. PSE will be doing the same thing for 6442.