The Missouri Senate's last day of meeting before next week's spring break lasted just five minutes and 15 seconds.
The only votes taken were to approve the journal from Wednesday's session and to adjourn.
"I believe the members are ready to move on to spring break," President Pro Tem Ron Richard told reporters after the brief session, "and ready to start when they come back."
The brief session capped a tumultuous two weeks that began March 7 with a nearly 40-hour filibuster of a proposed "religious liberty" constitutional amendment.
The Republican majority ended the filibuster by forcing a vote on the measure, and sponsor Bob Onder, R-Lake St. Louis, said its passage was one of the highlights of the 2016 session's first 11 weeks.
The only votes on any bill since the filibuster was broken around 6:45 a.m. March 9 were on the preliminary and final approval of Onder's resolution - although senators spent several hours this Wednesday debating, but not voting on, a proposal to modify public retirement systems in the state.
Richard, R-Joplin, doesn't think the two-week slow-down means the Senate will be fractured for the rest of the year.
"I guess it depends on issues," he said. "Fractured or not, (Republicans) are still 23 and we're still going to move on our (priorities) as the majority party," he said. "I think it's probably the best first-half we've ever had, in the history of the (Republican) majority of the Senate - with tort reform, labor reform and the amount of bills heard in committee."
Floor Leader Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, agreed. "I think the first half has been very productive," he said. "I think the members are working well with each other."
He noted the GOP Caucus priorities include creating a better "business climate" in Missouri and pointed to debates about changing the civil lawsuit rules and "three or four ethics bills" that would change some of the relationships between lawmakers and lobbyists at the Capitol.
"We all agree there's a lot to be done this session, and Missourians are counting on us," Kehoe added. "Certainly, our one constitutional responsibility - the one reason I come to the building each session - is the budget, and that should be, and always is, in my mind, our focus."
Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said the committee will begin reviewing the House-passed budget when senators return March 29. He still thinks lawmakers can pass the final budget in April, so Gov. Jay Nixon will have to act on the budget before the General Assembly session ends May 13.
That would give lawmakers time to override any line-item vetoes, if the governor makes them.
Nothing has been crossed off the debate list for the session's last seven weeks, Richard and Kehoe said.
That means the Senate likely still will debate controversial issues including voter/photo ID, more restrictions on abortions and a proposal to raise fuel taxes to improve Missouri's roads-and-bridges system in the session's final weeks.