Senate is back. President @FannKfann tried to call on @RickGray for a motion, but @AZKellyT interjected with a point of order to explain that there is an active motion on the table.
@FannKfann @RickGray @AZKellyT Gray makes a substitute motion to adjourn until 11 a.m. Monday. @MichelleiUgenti is calling for a roll call vote on the motion to adjourn.
.@FannKfann says they want to adjourn because the House isn't progressing very well on the budget. "I don't want you guys sitting here twiddling your thumbs." This would give the House two days to figure out what it's doing.
So far, Democrats and a group of Republicans are voting against the adjournment motion, with Republican leaders and their supporters in favor.
"It would be a dereliction of our duty and disrespect to the rules if we left without entertaining that last motion," @mendezforaz says.

@AZKellyT, who's a "no," is now flanked by the chief of staff and the majority whip.
And Senate President Pro Tem @vinceleach is trying to convince @JDMesnard (a "no" on the motion to adjourn) that reintroducing the 22 vetoed bills and passing them is the "same thing" as overriding the governor's veto.
Sen. @AZKellyT says this vote isn't about her respect for @FannKfann. "I want my vote to represent not a poke in the eye for anybody but to continue to go forward and do the work of the people of Arizona."
.@FannKfann says she knows the vetoed bills are a subject everyone wants to talk about, but it might not be helpful to try to do an override at this exact moment.
Fann: Lawmakers should take the weekend to talk about it. "It would be better if we could have a conversation about this rather than doing it on the floor right now."
.@LivingstonLD22, who's in Michigan, says he told Senate leaders he would be flying back on Monday and will get to Phoenix that night, so 11 a.m. is the worst possible time to return. He's a no.
No adjourning yet. Bipartisan group of 18 senators rejected it, and now they’re back to Pace’s motion to override @dougducey’s veto of the bill with revisers’ technical corrections.
Sen. @AZKellyT: "The Legislature is a co-equal branch to the executive. This is not a poke in the eye. This is an action of a legitamate legislative governmental body that disagrees with action of the executive."

She hopes Ducey doesn't retaliate.
Sen. @TylerPaceAZ: "I stand with the belief that the Legislature has an authority to override, and that authority can be used in times when the Legislature feels that a policy or bill that was otherwise vetoed should become law."
Pace says he chose this bill at @SenQuezada29's suggestion. It's literally just technical changes and grammatical fixes, but it shows the people of Arizona that the #azleg won't just roll over, and will stand up for them.
President @FannKfann: "I get it. I know where you guys are coming from. I understand your feelings. This is a very big thing that we are doing right now."

She said they should have sat down in a closed caucus to discuss this.
But Fann voted for the veto override. And now with the board closed, @SonnyBorrelli says he wanted to change his vote to a yes.
@FannKfann tried to announce that the Senate is going to recess. @mendezforaz tried to move to adjourn sine die instead.

"Mr. Mendez, we don't even have a budget passed yet. That is totally inappropriate," Fann responds. She ruled him out of order, and the Senate is at recess.

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24 Jun
Quick thread recapping the strange last hour in the Senate:

When the #azleg recessed for 2 weeks in May, Gov. @dougducey vetoed all 22 bills on his desk in an attempt to push the Legislature to work on the budget. The main thing he accomplished was pissing off all 90 lawmakers
@dougducey This isn’t the first time Ducey did this: in 2018, when @JDMesnard was Speaker of the House, Ducey vetoed five House bills without warning and signed every veto letter telling Mesnard to send him a budget with money for teacher raises.
(Former Gov. @GovBrewer also instituted bill moratoriums, but she warned lawmakers first, telling them not to send her any more bills. Ducey’s lack of advance warning rubbed a lot of lawmakers the wrong way.)
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24 Jun
The Senate has finished re-passing all 22 vetoed bills. Sen. Pace just moved to override another veto and the Senate is at recess for a few minutes.
P sure the bill he moved to override a veto on was S1635 (revisers' technical corrections), which was re-introduced and revoted as SB1850 just minutes ago. No idea why there would be a veto override as well as passing the new bill
Senators are also trying to figure out how Fann went to recess when there's technically a motion on the floor. There's a huddle around the secretary's desk now.
Read 4 tweets
23 Jun
And back! Starting with votes on the budget procedures BRB SB1819, the one that was just amended with a bunch of election-related things
That passed 16-14, with no additional discussion
Feed bill also passed 16-14. Only the K-12 BRB left
Read 4 tweets
23 Jun
That’s it for COWs tonight. The Senate still has three bills to vote on, but first Quezada’s trying to amend the COW report to say Borrelli’s amendment failed
No dice excluding the Borrelli amendment as every R voted for it. Quezada's trying again with the Townsend amendment.
That motion also didn't work, but now the Senate's voting on whether Ugenti-Rita's amendment should be included.
Read 4 tweets
23 Jun
Clarifying because I was able to skim it quickly: it's not retweets, but the task force would look at "algorithmic bias." Basically, the thing where some candidates are sure Twitter or Facebook are suppressing their reach.
.@mendezforaz asked Borrelli about this. Borrelli explains that Twitter is deleting followers and "algorithms are already in the computer to make sure a certain candidate goes to the top."
Mendez asked Borrelli to explain what an algorithm is, and Borrelli said he can't because he's not a computer guy.

Mendez referred to Rep. Jake Hoffman, who was banned from Twitter after running a troll farm. Hoffman's seatmate, Warren Petersen, is presiding over debate.
Read 6 tweets
23 Jun
Senators rejected a @SenQuezada29 amendment to remove language shifting power from @SecretaryHobbs to @GeneralBrnovich, and now they're hearing amendments from @FannKfann that fine-tunes that language
The Fann amendment also creates a "special committee on the election audit," consisting of the Senate government committee members, to review the Senate's ongoing audit and present recommendations -- including a special session for legislative action if needed.
Also in this amendment: anyone can refuse mandated vaccines even in a smallpox epidemic, we're redefining newspapers, the study committee on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls is now about "peoples," not "women and girls" and Game and Fish can register people to vote
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