evidence_text: Senators Bayer, Irwin and Hertel, under their constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the motion to refer Senate Bill Nos. 550, 551, 552, and 553 to the Committee on Government Operations and moved that the statements they made during the discussion of the motion be printed as their reasons for voting “no.”
  
  The motion prevailed.