Frist Calls for 100-Hour Debate Limit on Judicial Nominees

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/april/0429_judicial_filibuster.shtml ^ | 29 April 2005 | By Melanie Hunt

[davidosborne]

(CNSNews.com) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) Wednesday called on Democrats to limit their debate on President Bush's judicial nominees to 100 hours and then to guarantee confirmation votes on the nominees. In exchange, Frist said he would not change Senate rules on filibusters.

[Fresh Wind]

I wonder if that is 100 hours per nominee, or 100 hours for all of them?

[davidosborne]

I hope it is 100 HOURS PER NOMINEE.. and I HOPE the Democrats USE ALL 100 HOURS to dig themselves in a hole so deep that they will lose more and more seats....

[pointsal]

Frist, THE FOOL, needs to rent a set of balls and get on with the job!

[hinckley buzzard]

I hope it is 100 HOURS PER NOMINEE.. and I HOPE the Democrats USE ALL 100 HOURS to dig themselves in a hole so deep that they will lose more and more seats....

I assume this means 100 hours of debate per nominee, which would mean 1 hour per senator, a plausible time frame. It also means that GOP senators will have plenty of time to show where they stand.

But I doubt, frankly, that the 'rats will go for this-- it is too simple and defeats their agenda decisively. Can't see the 'rat leadership coming in from the cold so easily.

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[floriduh voter]

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[votelife]

This is a smart move by Frist, it exposes the charade that the Dems are trying to preserve an instutition and "cool the saucer"...they just don't want a vote!

These are the Senators to call to help President Bush get a vote on his embattled judicial nominees:

Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

Washington, DC: (202) 224-2235
Phoenix, AZ: (602) 952-2410

Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
Washington, DC: (202) 224-2921
Providence, RI: (401) 453-5294

Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

Washington, DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta, ME: (207) 622-8292

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE)

Washington, DC: (202) 224-4224
Omaha, NE: (402) 758-8981

Senator John Warner (R-VA)

Washington, DC: (202) 224-2023
Roanoke, VA: (540) 857-2676

[SmithL]

[agincourt1415]

Yeah, and the hundred hours is counted on the 24 hour day, 4 days of debate, Democrats talk your hearts out, for the 4 days, get it all on the record, and on the morning of the 5th day we're voting.