President Ellis addressed the Senate:
"Pursuant to Senate Rule
76 and the committee on Senate Organization, we have established time limits for the consideration on Assembly Bill 7 and any other matters to come before the Senate today.
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Pursuant to that directive, the Senate will vote at 11 A.M. on the question of concurrence, and any other subsidiary motions that are made after that will be clocked in at 15 minutes."
Senator Miller moved that the actions of the committee on Senate Organization be repealed, and that the established time limits be removed.
The question was: Shall the actions of the committee on Senate Organization be repealed?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 13; noes, 19; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Carpenter, S. Coggs, T. Cullen, Erpenbach, Hansen, Holperin, Jauch, C. Larson, Miller, Risser, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 13.
Noes - Senators Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Galloway, Grothman, Harsdorf, Hopper, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Moulton, Olsen, Schultz, Vukmir, Wanggaard and Zipperer - 19.
Absent or not voting - Senator Lassa - 1.
Motion to repeal refused.
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Pursuant to Senate Rule
2 (1), Senator Kedzie in the chair.
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President Ellis in the chair.
The question was: Shall Assembly Bill 7 be concurred in?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 19; noes, 5; absent or not voting, 9; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Galloway, Grothman, Harsdorf, Hopper, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Moulton, Olsen, Schultz, Vukmir, Wanggaard and Zipperer - 19.
Noes - Senators Carpenter, Erpenbach, Hansen, Holperin and Wirch - 5.
Absent or not voting - Senators S. Coggs, T. Cullen, Jauch, C. Larson, Lassa, Miller, Risser, Taylor and Vinehout - 9.
Concurred in.
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Pursuant to the suspension of Senate Rule 73m on June 8, 2011, the official roll call on the question of concurrence in Assembly Bill 7 is:
Ayes - Senators Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Galloway, Grothman, Harsdorf, Hopper, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Moulton, Olsen, Schultz, Vukmir, Wanggaard and Zipperer - 19.
Noes - Senators Carpenter, S. Coggs, T. Cullen, Erpenbach, Hansen, Holperin, Jauch, C. Larson, Lassa, Miller, Risser, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 14.
Absent or not voting - None.
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Senator S. Fitzgerald moved that the vote by which Assembly Bill 7 was concurred in be reconsidered.
The question was: Shall the vote by which Assembly Bill 7 was concurred in be reconsidered?
Reconsideration refused.
Assembly Bill 7
Messaged pursuant to Senate Rule
42 (1).
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Senator Larson, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Kristine Schwanda and Molly Swank. Both women are constituents of Senator Larson and members of Emerge Wisconsin's 2011 class. Emerge Wisconsin is part of a national movement to address the under-representation of women in elected office at the local, state, and federal level.
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President Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate stand adjourned
Adjourned.
11:03 A.M.