Dems: Truck tolls vote next week. But there’s this one thing…

From CT Mirror.

House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz of Berlin and Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney of New Haven said Tuesday that each has convinced the other they have the votes necessary to pass legislation next week authorizing tractor trailer tolls on a dozen highway bridges. But there’s a significant complication.

The Democratic leaders still have to convince their rank-and-file that the other chamber’s count can be trusted. And that is leading to the possibility of the House and Senate acting simultaneously — an unprecedented scheme immediately denounced by Republican minority leaders as a mockery of parliamentary process, legislative history and common sense.

“It is the intent to bring it up at the same time,” Aresimowicz said.

Looney acknowledged hours later in a separate interview that synchronized debating and voting indeed was under consideration, though it was not his preference.

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