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[CHANTING]
CHANCE OF SHAME ON YOU IN
THE MICHIGAN SENATE TONIGHT
CAPPING OFF A CONTROVERSIAL
DAY AT THE CAPITOL AS BOTH
CHAMBERS TAKE ACTION ON RIGHT
TO WORK LEGISLATION.
THIS AS HUNDREDS OF
PROTESTERS CHEERED AND JEERED
INSIDE OF THE BUILDING AFTER
GETTING REMOVED EARLIER.
EIGHT REPORTEDLY PEPPER
SPRAYED AND ARRESTED AFTER
RUSHING INTO THE SENATE WHILE
IT WAS IN SESSION.
GOOD EVENING.
I AM BRIAN STERLING.
I AM SUSAN SHAW.
YOU TONIGHT.
WE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT IS
NEXT AND WHAT YOU AND WHEN
YOU CAN EK PK THE NEXT BIG
SHOW DOWN OVER RIGHT TO WORK.
THAT IS RIGHT.
PLUS, LEON HENDRICKS AND RYAN
TAKEO ARE GETTING REACTION
FROM THE OPPOSITION AND
ASKING ABOUT THE NEXT MOVES.
FIRST THOUGH.
LET'S GET OVER TO RICK ALBIN.
HE HAS THE LATEST FROM
LANSING.
Reporter: AFTER A LONG,
SOMETIMES CONTENTIOUS DAY,
RIGHT TO WORK IS NOW 50% OF
THE WAY TO BECOMING THE LAW
IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.
I HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR SINCE
2009.
Reporter: IT STARTED WITH
THE GOVERNOR, THE SENATE
MAJORITY LEADER AND THE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE COMING
TOGETHER IN A ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSION TO CONFIRM THEY
WOULD PURSUE RIGHT TO WORK IN
THE LAME-DUCK SESSION.
IT MOVED QUICKLY FROM THERE
TO THE STATE SENATE WHERE TWO
BILLS WERE INTRODUCED THAT
WOULD MAKE RIGHT TO WORK.
THE DEBATE ON THE FIRST BILL
WENT ON FOR NEARLY THREE
HORS.
INCLUDING ONE STRETCH WHERE
ONE MEMBER APPEARED TO BE
READING FROM WICCA PEED WHY
AS HE LECTURED THE CHAMBER
ABOUT THE VALUE OF UNIONS.
AULT MATILY, A VOTE WAS
CALLED, DEMOCRATS WALKED OUT.
REPUBLICANS PREVAILED.
THERE WERE PROTESTERS.
THERE WERE HECK LETTERS.
THERE WERE THOSE WHO VOICED
PROCESS.
IN THE END, THE SECOND VOTE
TOOK A MERE FEW MINUTES.
ONE COULD BE ACTED ON
IMMEDIATELY.
ANOTHER WILL HAVE TO WAIT
UNTIL EARLY NEXT WEEK.
THAT GIVES MORE OPPORTUNITY
FOR PROTESTERS TO COME HERE
AND HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD
AND TWO MORE OPPORTUNITIES
FOR REPUBLICANS TO ONCE AGAIN
HAVE TO REAFFIRM THEIR
SUPPORT FOR THE RIGHT TO WORK
IN MICHIGAN.