Posted on 09/17/2015 2:13:22 AM PDT by Dave346
The Senate stands adjourned until 10:00am on Thursday, September 17, 2015.
Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of H.J.Res.61, the legislative vehicle for the Congressional disapproval of the proposed Iran nuclear agreement, with the time until 11:00am equally divided between the two Leaders or their designees.
At 11:00am, there will be up to 3 roll call votes:
Motion to invoke cloture on McConnell amendment #2656 (hostages and Israel’s right to exist); if cloture is not invoked, then
Motion to invoke cloture on McConnell amendment #2640 (Iran nuclear agreement resolution of disapproval); if cloture is not invoked, then
Motion to invoke cloture on H.J.Res.61, Hire More Heroes Act.
If any cloture motions are invoked, the Senate would then begin to burn up to 30 hours of post-cloture time. The filing deadline for all second degree amendments is 10:30am.
I’d like to see the Democrats go on record as disavowing Israel and American hostages in Iran.
Hire More Heroes=more stealth Affirmative Action.
Don’t let the name fool ya. It’s got nothing to do with all of a sudden deciding to hire white males again.
Pro sports analogy. The Tampa Bay Bucs ownership family is committed to Affirmative Action to such an extent, they managed to scout out a 21-year-old black kid to be their star QB. Nobody’s laughing. And Lovie Smith, just coming off a 2-win season, has the family’s total confidence. I mean you can’t make this stuff up. The 800-pound reparations elephant in the locker room that no sports writer would dare talk about.
I must have missed something along the way - that the United States Senate has anything to say about Israel's "right to exist"?
I dare say if they were to vote "no", Israel would "veto".
The Corker Bill came out of committee onto the senate floor, and would pass with only one no vote.
But it was subject to the amendment process before that vote.
There were many amendments filed, fewer amendments were introduced, and fewer were actually voted on. McConnell killed most of them.
Back then they were under the gun to pass a trade bill and highway bill. Now, the fiscal year ends on Sept 30 and they need a budget bill, and the water is muddy over abortion funding.
If you had the time to do a Google search, you could probably find a list of all those amendments in April, who filed/introduced them, and the outcome of each.
Winston as a Tampa Bay Buc what an absolute joke. All because Florida football heavyweights want this idiot to be the QB. look what they did to keep his rapist out of jail, then basically trashed a young women and gave this so called star a free pass. Will the Florida Football heavyweights be supportive when Winston pulls an OJ simpson move and the State Highway Patrol is following beyond a White Mercedes Benz.
More theater. They all voted for the Corker bill that makes the Iran deal unstoppable. All Senators voted for the Corker bill except cotton being the only sane no vote.
Iran still gets Nukes.
What about the Nukes?
These Senators are all traitors.
Among other considerations will be how low to bend over while dropping trou for Obama and whether or not to bother with Vaseline.
Psalm 70
Bears repeated reminding. Paul, Rubio and sad to say Cruz all voted for the Corker/Cardin bill. Surrendering before the war is engaged should remain a French trait. No place for it among American wannabe statesmen.
In fact it is my desire to see that all the GOP senators up for reelection this cycle get primary challenges for surrendering their treaty authority to the executive branch.
Yup, the Senate only voted on 2 amendments to the Corker bill (to consider any deal as a treaty, and to require Iran to cease terrorism). All Democrats and a few Republicans voted against each.
Cotton than insisted on voting on inspections to all sites and Israel right to exist at 50 vote thresholds.
Democrats than insisted on blocking all further amendment votes and McConnell caved to the demand in order to “maintain bipartisanship”.
Today’s vote combines 2 of the amendments Democrats were most scared of back in April (hostages and Israel).
Democrats all rejected it today anyway by a 53-45 vote count (under a 60 vote cloture motion).
Had McConnell allowed the Cotton maneuver back in April at the 50 vote threshold, a deal this back could’ve been prevented.
Full role call should be available soon:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes.htm
That would have killed the Corker bill. The only way that the legislation could move forward out of committee was if there were no poison pills. If McConnell had allowed Cotton's poison pill into the legislation as an amendment, it would have killed the bill.
Previously, Obama vowed to veto Corker's bill. But a group of democrats told Obama that they wanted to vote up or down, based solely on the merits of the Iran agreement.
It is not known how many dems were in the group that wanted a vote. Sixteen dems had backed Kirk-Menendez in 2013-14, but some of them had lost to a republican in the Nov 2014 election.
So Obama agreed to that. Cardin would negotiate on behalf of the dem caucus and Obama while Corker negotiated on behalf of the GOP.
Cardin and Corker ended up with a bill that Obama said he would not veto because it contained no poison pills and the dem senators agreed because there were no way the GOP could politicize it, or if the GOP did try to politicize the bill, the dems could abandon it, which is what happened.
The poison pills were kept out of the bill in committee and it passed 19-0. All poison pills were kept out of the bill during the amendment process and it passed with only 1 no vote.
The GOP couldn't help themselves. After the Iran agreement was completed, many GOPers tried to politicize it and the dems abandoned the Corker bill and the GOP couldn't get enough votes for cloture, saving Obama the embarrassment of having to veto.
The GOP has no discipline. If they had stuck with what they agreed to, it would have been far more effective than what they are trying to do now
I haven't seen politicians do anything pro-American at least not at the national level.
This is why I support Trump over the rest.
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/20150910LetterToMcConnellBoehner.pdf
I don’t understand this. If Cruz wrote this letter to Boehner on 09/08/15, how/why did he vote FOR the Corker/Cardin bill now?
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/20150910LetterToMcConnellBoehner.pdf
I don’t understand this. If Cruz wrote this letter to Boehner on 09/08/15, how/why did he vote FOR the Corker/Cardin bill now?
That’s a very good question. Maybe we’ll have an answer.
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