The Alabama Legislature’s daily session ended abruptly Tuesday as the Alabama Senate adjourned amid a filibuster threat from a senator over what he claimed was poor House treatment of Senate legislation.
Sen. Andrew Jones, R-Centre, threatened to carry over or filibuster all House bills before the Senate until the end of the day Tuesday.
“I have a concern that our friends in the House are really not being fair with our Senate bills. I have got one in particular that I have that concern over, I know others do as well,” he said.
Jones did not say which bill drew his concern.
“We can handle the House bills one of two ways: We can just carry them over, that is fine, not to the call of the chair, carry them over for another day, another calendar,” he said. “Or we can stand up here and just talk and chitchat on those House bills till the cows come, and the clock strikes midnight and we all turn into pumpkins.”