Democrats who hold all three levers of power at the Minnesota Capitol said Thursday that they would shut down long speeches that have impaired their ability to pass bills in the final days of the legislative session.

The move came less than a day after DFL Speaker Melissa Hortman called a snap vote on a bill making changes to a new paid family and medical leave program, an illustration of a possibly bumpy push to the session’s finish this weekend.

Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, said that after eight hours of debate on the paid-leave proposal, it was time to bring the bill to a vote. Republicans shouted and called out various points of order during the vote. They said that they’d been silenced by the move to call the vote with no notice.

“Minnesotans sent us here to deliver, we will deliver we’ll get the work done,” Hortman said Thursday. “Just as the rules provide that the minority has a right to be heard, the rules of the House also provide that the majority has the right and the responsibility to govern.”

Hortman said that would mean approving nearly 20 budget touch-up bills, an equal rights amendment, a sports betting bill and other priorities before the deadline to vote on bill Sunday at 11:59 p.m.

She said the House would move forward with a vote on the equal rights amendment that contains protections for gender identity and pregnancy outcomes on Friday, even if that meant spiking a capital investment bill for the year. Republicans have said they would withhold votes on a capital investment package unless Democrats tabled the ballot question.

“It’s time for us to expand civil rights clearly in our Constitution to include everyone,” Hortman said. “And the Republicans may want to fight that. But we are just as determined, if not more, to fight for it.”