CARSON CITY — After Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley paid a visit to the offices of Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, the Senate went back into session briefly to start its own sine die ceremonies.

Raggio said he spoke to Gov. Jim Gibbons, who is considering a special session for the purpose of passing the few bills left undone at 1 a.m. When that might happen — and, more important, what bills will be on the list — isn’t clear as we write this (at 2:12 a.m.).

“It’s nobody’s fault,” Raggio said, blaming the time needed to get bills from one house to the other. “It’s just the mechanics.”

Of course, he’s wrong. Raggio’s been a senator since 1973, and he cannot be ignorant of how long it takes to process bills, even at top legislative speed. He had to know that it was impossible to complete the volume of bills in the time allotted, and he even took a final Senate agenda out of order to get a trio of measures out before 1 a.m.

But Raggio went on to say what we blogged earlier: Actions taken after 1 a.m. are void. Some have said that the bills should be enrolled anyway, but Raggio said he wasn’t willing to take that chance. “This is one senator who’s going to follow the constitution,” he said.