Wisconsin Senate passes bill restricting public employee bargaining --
Last evening, March 9, 2011, the Wisconsin Senate, without the missing Democrats that left the state, passed a bill that just restricted the public employee bargaining by stripping out the financial part of the existing bill, thereby eliminating the need for a quorum and a supermajority of the vote.
A judge in Madison, Wis., on Thursday ruled a controversial law severely limiting the collective bargaining powers of public employee unions in the state was not in effect.