C-span 2..Debate on Gonzales Day 2 ~ Vote today [LIVE THREAD]

Thomas ^ | 2-02-05 | Senate

[OXENinFLA]

PROGRAM -- (Senate - February 01, 2005)

Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, tomorrow the Senate will resume consideration of the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be Attorney General. A number of colleagues spoke on this nomination today, and we expect a full day of debate tomorrow as well. Under the agreement, we will alternate debate in 1-hour blocks throughout the day. Again, I encourage those Members who wish to speak on the Gonzales nomination to contact the chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee as soon as possible.

ORDERS FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2005 -- (Senate - February 01, 2005) Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, February 2. I further ask that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved, and at 9:30 a.m. the Senate proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be Attorney General, as provided under the previous order; provided that at 2:30 p.m. Senator Byrd be recognized for up to 1 hour.

[Howlin]

John Dean's take on the Bybee "Torture" Memo:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050114.html

[Jrabbit]

So, Frist can't just call for a vote? I need to brush up on procedure....but the dims seem to be practicing torture

[Howlin]

The Bybee Memo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/dojinterrogationmemo20020801.pdf

[BigSkyFreeper]

The CSPAN announcers remind me of pilots on a flight. They remind you what's coming up, unfortunately they don't say when to put your seatback tray in the upright position or when to put your head between your legs.

[Howlin]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999148/site/newsweek/


Gonzales Memo to Bush.

[Mo1]

The co-author of the memo was Bybee's deputy, John Yoo, now a law professor at Berkeley's Boalt Hall Law School. But who wrote what is unclear. In the end, Bybee was the senior official who signed off on the legal opinion, so the responsibility for its content is his

So Bybee didn't write the whole memo huh??

And who is John Yoo??

[deport]

So, Frist can't just call for a vote? I need to brush up on procedure....

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Correct..... very little gets done in the Senate absent unanimous consent..... The House operates on a different procedure.

[Howlin]

	general • courses • teaching evaluations • cv • publications
	John Choon Yoo Title: Professor of Law Office: 890 Simon Hall Tel: 510-643-5089 Fax: 510-642-3728 Email Address: yoo@law.berkeley.edu John C. Yoo's Website John Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University. Between college and law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He then clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit. Professor Yoo joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the Free University of Amsterdam. He has received research fellowships from the University of California, Berkeley, the Olin Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Professor Yoo also has received the Paul M. Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. He has testified before the judiciary committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and has advised the State of California on constitutional issues. Professor Yoo has published articles about foreign affairs, international law and constitutional law in a number of the nation’s leading law journals, including the law reviews of Boalt Hall, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. He is the author of War, Peace, and the Constitution (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2005). Education: A.B., Harvard University (1989) J.D., Yale University (1992)

[Mo1]

clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas huh??


Why do I get the feeling all this BS the dems are doing .. isn't just about Gonzales?

[Howlin]

Because they're talking about Bush more than they're talking about him?

[Bahbah]

And who is John Yoo??

Very intelligent guy. I've seen him a couple of times, I think on C-Span. They must have snuck him into Boalt Hall.

[Mo1]

Yea ... but this isn't just about Bush either ... this is a set up for something else ..

What? .. I'm not sure

[Jrabbit]

I suppose the dims feel this is a little victory....not letting President Bush have his cabinet. Petty tyrants, aren't they?

Has Hill O' Beans chimed in yet, or is she still fainting?

[Carolinamom]

I hope I don't see any of them attempting to cozy up to President Bush tonight as he walks down the aisle to the podium....as Daschle did. (Then, didn't he later use this pic for his campaign, implying falsely that he was a buddy of the President?)

[BigSkyFreeper]

I think it all goes back to when Harry Reid basically called Clarence Thomas an uneducated n****r. Not that way, but he may as well have said it that way. Reid is a damned racist.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Daschle exposed his left flank. Daschle paid for it in the end. LMAO

[BigSkyFreeper]

I kinda wonder if Hitlery is still pulling the slivers from her face.

[JohnBDay]

Has Hill O' Beans chimed in yet, or is she still fainting?

I'd be willing to bet she'll vote to confirm. There's nothing she could do that would cause the left to abandon her so she'll posture to the center.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Go Domenici Go!! He's calling the Dems on their racist tendencies as of late.

[Mo1]

Stevens up and ripping into the Dems for playing politics