The Senate has a proposed calendar that includes a bill from Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, making it a crime for state officers to help enforce federal gun laws. It includes this language. #alpolitics 
I'm toggling between the House (which is taking up the education budget package) and the Senate. Sen. Jim McClendon, R-Springville, has been talking prior to the motion to adopt the calendar, but I'm not clear why. #alpolitics
Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, has already pointed out the bill would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause (though that's rarely stopped Alabama politicians before). #alpolitics
Bill passes procedural motion. Allen has offered a substitute to the bill. Not sure what's in it. #alpolitics
McClendon is back up, suggesting he will amend the bill into the evening. #alpolitics
McClendon is still speaking on the bill. It's rare to see a Republican filibustering another Republican. #alpolitics
McClendon talking about how federal law limits access to automatic weapons. "I've shot automatic weapons, and they’re not all that fun to tell you the truth, unless you’re into cutting down trees." #alpolitics
The Senate appears to have adjourned for the day, without voting on Allen's bill (or anything else). #alpolitics
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