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Democratic Senate Committee Members Fail to Attend

The Senate Special Committe continues to investigate Gov. Holden's authority to impose an executive order on collective bargaining.

The meeting this afternoon was intended to discuss the govenor's actions from both democratic and republican sides.

However, democrate committe members and Holden administration officials failed to appear.

Republican Senator Dave Klarich:

Republican John Loudon also expressed frustration.

Senate Committee members continued the meeting and will resume discussing Holden's executive order next week.