"Members still have some trepidations about the impact it's going to have on them personally," said Sen. Donne Trotter, D-Chicago. "That's what we do. We take hard votes down here, and these are hard times, so it necessitates us doing some things that we wouldn't do under normal circumstances. But I believe the times have pushed us to that point, that something has to be done, and this is one of the ways to do it."