{"id":1441,"date":"2007-03-20T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/senate-has-quorum-democrats-holding-secret-caucus\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T19:05:00","slug":"senate-has-quorum-democrats-holding-secret-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/senate-has-quorum-democrats-holding-secret-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate has quorum, Democrats holding secret caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The New Mexico Senate had a quorum when it convened today for a special session called by Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a>. Senate Democrats are meeting in a closed caucus meeting now to discuss the situation. <\/p>\n

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The Senate convened shortly after noon, but Majority Leader Michael Sanchez<\/a>, D-Belen, soon called for the recess.<\/p>\n

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The House has a quorum and is currently meeting.<\/p>\n

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The question now is whether Senate Democrats, when they emerge, will vote to end the session or will get to work.<\/p>\n

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Click here<\/a> to read Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s proclamation of the special session. Scroll down to read my earlier article that explains what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

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Update, 1:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

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One House member just told me there is a \u201csomber mood\u201d in the chamber. The House is taking care of some routine business now, and then Democrats will go into a caucus meeting.<\/p>\n

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Still no word from the Senate.<\/p>\n

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Update, 2:35 p.m.<\/p>\n

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The House has recessed until 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Democrats and Republicans will meet in caucus this afternoon and then committees will meet to begin consideration of the items on the special session agenda.<\/p>\n

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The governor\u2019s about to have a news conference.<\/p>\n

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Still no word from the Senate.<\/p>\n

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Update, 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> held a short news conference this afternoon to urge the Senate to work, the Albuquerque Tribune<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want an up or down vote on each of these bills by the House and Senate,\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cWe can get out of here in three days or less. \u2026 They\u2019re grumbling. They are tired. I\u2019m tired. But I think we are all elected to represent the people of our state. I think it\u2019s important that we pass these bills.<\/p>\n

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Senators are still meeting in secret caucuses.<\/p>\n

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Update, 4:25 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Sanchez is meeting with Speaker of the House Ben Lujan<\/a> and Senate President Pro Tem Ben Altamirano<\/a>, Kate Nash is reporting on her blog. She\u2019s hearing the same thing I am: that the Senate has the votes to adjourn sine die.<\/p>\n

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Update, 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

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No surprise here \u2013 House committees have already passed several of the bills Richardson<\/st1:City><\/st1:place> wants. The House passed them during the regular session.<\/p>\n

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The Senate Democrats are still meeting in secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Mexico Senate had a quorum when it convened today for a special session called by Gov. Bill Richardson. Senate Democrats are meeting in a closed caucus meeting now to discuss the situation. The Senate convened shortly after noon, but Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, soon called for the recess. The House has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}