'We have seen bills like this in other states and they already have lost billions. We have a net migration of negative 2,000 per year. Educated workers leaving the state.'

'I'm reading a letter directed to Senator Bosen. I'm writing today to urge a non vote against a bill restricting abortion and that takes away the rights of trans people.'

'I don't know if you remember, I was your high school math teacher'

Reading letters from other constituents

Wow.

This Senator is reading a letter from another Senator's old math teacher urging them not to pass the abortion/trans ban.

'I remember you were impacted by my grief'

Wow.

'Leave these decisions to the family, the child, and their doctor to provide.'

moving to the trans ban portion.

You can hear the chanting in the rotunda loudly.

'This is what democracy looks like.'

'It is. It is what democracy looks like.'

'The new version of LB574 is not what democracy looks like. It's what corruption looks like. It's the epitome of corruption in politics.'

'33 people are going to vote for this because...'

She pauses and laughs.

'I don't know why they're going to vote for it.'

She then pauses.

'Because they are weak.'

'All of this disingenuous talk about babies. It's lies. It's all lies. They don't care about babies. They don't care about your babies. They care about getting something. Believe me they're getting something. Because there are people voting for this bill who don't agree with it.'

'I am certain that your kids who have been pleading with you are going to be unhappy. How you are feeding a part into a movement of transphobia.'

'Nothing I say matters in this chamber, so I am going to say the unvarnished truth. This place is morally bankrupt, that you are playing political games with parents and children in this state to get something. It's gross. It's vile.'

'Voting green on LB574 means you are willing to put Nebraska taxpayers on the hook for millions of dollars in legal fees.'