By BRIAN LYMAN
Capital Bureau
MONTGOMERY Bills aimed at providing insurance relief for Mobile and Baldwin counties are near death after a clash Tuesday between state Sen. Ben Brooks, R-Mobile and Senate Rules Committee chairman Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe.
Barron submitted a list of "noncontroversial" legislation for the Senate to consider late Tuesday afternoon. The list did not include any of Brooks' insurance bills, and when Brooks began filibustering the bill in protest, Barron warned him he would not schedule his insurance bills for any vote.
"You're acting childish and it is wrong," Barron told Brooks in a heated speech from the floor. "As long as you keep acting this way, you can forget about me putting your bill up (for a vote)."
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