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We were left with no choice," Democrat Sen. Jon Erpenbach said of theCriminal Minds dvd decision to leave Wisconsin rather than debate the plan in the legislature. He was speaking to Teletubbies 4WisPolitics, an online news service.

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Speaking about the issue Thursday in a television interview, President Barack Obama said that while he understands state governments' need to make cuts, the Wisconsin proposal The Tudors season 4seems like "an assault on The Big Bang Theory dvdunions."

"Some of what I've heard House MD dvdcoming out of Wisconsin, where you're just making it harder for public Bones dvdemployees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions," Obama said.

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Scheduled debate on the proposal was scrapped because a quorum of 20 senators was needed and there are 19 Republicans. The state House of Representatives also has a Republican majority.

Walker issued a statement Thursday calling Democratic legislators "disrespectful" and calling on them to return to work.

Harley Shaiken, a labor professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that how I met your mother dvdWisconsin pioneered collective bargaining for state workers in the 1960s.

"All this is taking placencis dvd against a backdrop of mass protest in Cairo and elsewhere where people are trying to form unions..." said Shaiken. "It's an unusual moment with high stakes -- and not just for Wisconsin ... It has huge political Family Guy dvdimplications."

U.S. state and local governments are struggling to balance their budgets this year, after the recession decimated their finances. Some states such as Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona and Ohio are trying to make deep cuts in spending to balance the books. Others such as Minnesota and Illinois, are raising taxes.

In Ohio, where the state Senate is considering a similar law known as SB5 that would eliminate collective bargaining for many state workers, thousands of demonstrators, some carrying signs that read "Kill SB5" or "Stop SB5" packed the lawn outside the state Capitol.

Among the protesters was former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, a Democrat Dexter dvdwho lost the election last year to Republican John Kasich, who supports the measure.

By late afternoon, the Ohio protesters had moved into an atrium adjacent to the old state Capitol where loudspeakers were set up to monitor the debate inside the Senate chamber.