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Mitch McConnell Did Something Last Night to Senate Dems That Has Them Furious
theblaze.com ^ | 1/23/15 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 01/23/2015 7:01:55 AM PST by cotton1706

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) late Thursday left Democrats angry and sputtering on the Senate floor, as he used his new power as majority leader to brush off several Democratic amendments in an effort to speed up work on a bill to approve the Keystone pipeline.

McConnell has so far made a point of allowing amendment votes, something Democrats barely allowed for the last few years. Earlier Thursday, McConnell boasted that the Senate had already held more amendment votes on the Keystone bill than Democrats allowed during all of 2014.

“We’ve actually reached a milestone here that I think’s noteworthy for the Senate,” McConnell said after the 15th amendment vote. “This is the way the Senate ought to work.”

But McConnell has also said the Senate can’t work on the Keystone bill forever, a warning that he wants to finish it up at some point in the near future.

Late Thursday night, McConnell said the new open process in the Senate led members of both parties to propose a new wave of amendments that he wanted to deal with immediately. He asked senators for an agreement to vote on a series of 12 amendments right then and there.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) objected, and said Democrats would be ready to keep working on these amendments on Friday. But McConnell dismissed that and said the Senate should be ready to work on them now. With no agreement, he said his only choice was to start a series of votes to table, or kill, all Democratic amendments.

“Given the fact that they’re reluctant to vote on their own amendments… the only way to go forward is to table their amendments,” he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; energy; keystonexl; keystonexlbill; oil; pipeline
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"What's sauce for the goose..."

It's fun to watch the video and see idiot Ed Markey completely shut down. Also nice to see Ben Sasse presiding over the Senate!

1 posted on 01/23/2015 7:01:55 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Mitch McConnell is going to a much better Majority Leader than anyone expected.


2 posted on 01/23/2015 7:05:29 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: cotton1706
“Given the fact that they’re reluctant to vote on their own amendments… the only way to go forward is to table their amendments,”

I never thought I would say it, but

Good for the turtle!


3 posted on 01/23/2015 7:05:36 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: cotton1706

Mitch McConnell exerts his majority leader power AGAINST Democrats!!?

The Porcine Air Force is now preparing for takeoff.


4 posted on 01/23/2015 7:06:56 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: cotton1706
With the price of oil dropping, there's no rush to approve the pipeline now.

We should know by now that most of the jobs created by the pipeline will be Union jobs which means the final price will be greatly bloated and a huge chunk of the money appropriated for it will end up back in 'RAT campaign accounts and there will be billions if not trillions of dollar of pork attached to it.

5 posted on 01/23/2015 7:06:59 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rdcbn

Maybe so! Maybe his actual gender will become visible too.


6 posted on 01/23/2015 7:07:36 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: rdcbn

“Mitch McConnell is going to a much better Majority Leader than anyone expected.’

We’ll see. He’s gonna have to do more than this to get me to trust him though. (cautiously hopeful).


7 posted on 01/23/2015 7:07:59 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: Texas Eagle

If that is true, why is Obamba and most Dims dead set against it? That makes no sense!


8 posted on 01/23/2015 7:08:44 AM PST by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: cotton1706

After using sleazy procedural chicanery to engineer a government takeover of health care — The ‘Rats can’t complain about something as trivial as this.


9 posted on 01/23/2015 7:09:02 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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10 posted on 01/23/2015 7:09:15 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: cotton1706

Hairy Roid was squealing about it on twitter.

My response.

Being in the minority is a bitch ain’t it?


11 posted on 01/23/2015 7:09:18 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cotton1706

Barack Obama - “Elections have consequences.”

They sure do President Fumblebutt.


12 posted on 01/23/2015 7:10:49 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Texas Eagle
With the price of oil dropping, there's no rush to approve the pipeline now.

Yeah, and when the price is high again, the enemy will say, why build it now? We won't see any oil for five years. The cost overruns are already factored in, and the fact is that the pipeline will make the North American fuel more competitive in cost, and the producers get to see more of the money, will produce more, and keep the price more reasonable.
13 posted on 01/23/2015 7:13:53 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: rdcbn
Mitch McConnell is going to a much better Majority Leader than anyone expected.

Hard to imagine his being any worse than previously.
14 posted on 01/23/2015 7:19:18 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: cotton1706

I hear he tabled an amendment by Harry Reid to outlaw motorized treadmills.


15 posted on 01/23/2015 7:21:16 AM PST by AU72
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To: Texas Eagle
With the price of oil dropping, there's no rush to approve the pipeline now.

Nonsense, do you think we will use less because the price is low?

Canada Doesn’t Need Keystone XL to Win U.S. Crude Supply Battle
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-08/canada-wins-u-s-crude-supply-battle-without-keystone-xl.html

Exports by rail have more than tripled to a record 182,000 barrels a day in the third quarter, from about 57,000 barrels a day two years earlier, according to Canada’s National Energy Board....

Due to investments already committed, oil-sands production is poised to rise 36 percent to at least 2.6 million barrels a day by 2017, Peters & Co., a Calgary-based investment bank, said in a November forecast.
Projects now under construction will require 1 million barrels a day of new pipeline space, said Chris Cox, an analyst at Raymond James Ltd. in Calgary.

“What you should expect this year is that all incremental heavy oil barrels are effectively going to be transported by rail,” Cox said....

16 posted on 01/23/2015 7:23:16 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: AU72
I hear he tabled an amendment by Harry Reid to outlaw motorized treadmills.

Are you serious about this?

17 posted on 01/23/2015 7:23:53 AM PST by Blennos
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To: BenLurkin
After using sleazy procedural chicanery to engineer a government takeover of health care — The ‘Rats can’t complain about something as trivial as this.

They can, and they will.

Then Obama will issue an Executive Order that all Democrat votes count 3x as much as the Republicans do, giving the majority back to the Dems.

18 posted on 01/23/2015 7:26:31 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Texas Eagle
With the price of oil dropping, there's no rush to approve the pipeline now.

Keystone isn't about the price of oil now, it's about the price 5-10+ years in the future.

Oil won't stay this low forever, one conflict in Europe or the unstable Middle East - not unlikely at all, given the current players - and oil will be expensive again.

Keystone is about planning ahead.


19 posted on 01/23/2015 7:27:34 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Blennos
I hear he tabled an amendment by Harry Reid to outlaw motorized treadmills.

Sorry forgot the tag /s

20 posted on 01/23/2015 7:27:56 AM PST by AU72
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