From the CT Mirror:
Senate Democrats took the extraordinary step in the final hour of the 2015 session Wednesday of threatening to cut off debate to ensure passage on a 19-17 vote of a new state budget that raises tax revenues by $2 billion.
With less than an hour until the midnight adjournment deadline, Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney stood to call the question, a move to end debate that is considered the nuclear option in legislative process, to stop a five-hour debate that had morphed into a Republican filibuster to kill the proposed two-year budget.
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Two Democrats voted against the budget. Marilyn Moore and Ed Gomes didn’t utter one word during the entire debate. They didn’t offer a single comment, ask a single question, or offer an amendment to defund the new charter school in Bridgeport, add the tax exemption for clothing under $50, eliminate the reduction on the property tax credit, eliminate the provision that will remove 20,000 residents who live in poverty from losing Healthcare benefits, etc.
Our entire delegation needs to be held accountable for this disgraceful budget that increases taxes by almost $2 billion. Much of these taxes are on the middle class.