As Goldy just posted, Republicans have hijacked the Senate floor and are demanding a vote on a budget that essentially, no one's read. The goal is to subvert the public process and log-jam the other bills slated to be voted on by 5:00 pm (basically ensuring that Senators won't be able to pass any other legislation before today's deadline). It's unclear if that will actually happen. What is clear is that Democrats are furious (you can follow along on TVW over here). Here's what they've been saying:

Sen. Ed Murray (D-43): “This is a huge step backwards for parliamentary process. Transparency is being tossed out the window, along with any hope of bipartisanship.The motion is whether to consider SB 5967, to not vote, to undertake a budget under consideration on the floor when it hasn’t been reviewed."

Sen. Karen Keiser (D-33): "SB 5967 is a dark, backroom, secret document. We shouldn’t be doing this. This is beneath us."

Sen. Sharon Nelson (D-34): "This is a 233-page budget that they’re being asked to vote on without reading it. How can I make a decision…when I wasn’t even allowed to read the document?"

Sen. Jeanne Khol Welles (D-36): "We are seeing partisanship here that I think is very similar to what is going on in Washington DC and Congress. Not working together, trying to pull fast ones so that the citizens of the state of WA don’t know what’s going on. I believe that what is going on here today is going to damage the perception of our state legislature… and I think it’s distasteful."

Sen. Cheryl Pflug (R-Smug): "The partisan majority may keep a bill bottled up in majority. The parliamentary move is essentially like the initiative process in the public. It’s a relief valve… to move around a partisan blockade." Pflug demands the vote.