Effort to ‘blast’ right-to-work onto Senate floor falls flat
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State Sen. Bill support of a motion by Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, to have House Bill 75 — the so-called right-to-work bill — skip the Senate judiciary committee and move straight to the Senate floor. The motion failed. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
Posted: Thursday, March 5, 2015 7:00 pm | Updated: 9:49 am, Fri Mar 6, 2015.
Republicans tried but failed Thursday to move the bill they call “right-to-work” straight to the full New Mexico Senate, saying they did not want it bottled up in committees controlled by Democrats.
The vote to blast the bill to the Senate floor failed 25-17 on a party-line vote. Every Democrat opposed sending the bill directly to the entire Senate.
Members of the Senate rarely circumvent the process in which committees hear bills, then vote on whether to advance them. But Republicans know that the two-pronged “right-to-work” bill, which would outlaw certain compulsory union fees and raise the statewide minimum wage to $8 an hour, has little chance of surviving Senate committees.
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