The Pennsylvania Senate devolved into partisan shouting, name-calling and bare-knuckled procedural tactics June 26 over a bill to end a decades-old program that offers $200 a month to people deemed unable to work.

The bill ultimately passed the GOP-controlled chamber, 26-24, with two Republicans siding with Democrats against it, but not before a tense scene unfolded that senators on both sides roundly said they had never witnessed in the chamber.

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