Alabama Senate Democrats slowed down business in the upper chamber Thursday afternoon due to a lack of Democratic bills on the chamber’s agenda and opposition to bills on it.
The filibuster delayed votes on two contentious bills to the end of the month.
Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, said in an interview Thursday morning that Democrats were not included in the decision-making process for the special order calendar, which sets the chamber’s agenda for the day.
“As a minority party, we have been working along with the majority, and we didn’t get notice of what was going to be on the calendar,” Singleton said.
The calendar included House Bill 2, sponsored by Rep. David Standridge, R-Hayden, which would require Alabama public entities to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”