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To: Cboldt
But none of that forces any Senator to talk. They are free to sit on their thumbs if they want.

But then they vote. If there's quorum it's either talk, vote, or, at the discretion of the Chair, move on to other business. You can't say "I don't want to vote," and not debate or threaten debate (the non-filibuster filibuster I described earlier). It doesn't work that way.

1,905 posted on 05/12/2005 1:20:55 PM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society (James Burnham--Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.)
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To: Chairman_December_19th_Society
If there's quorum it's either talk, vote, or, at the discretion of the Chair, move on to other business. You can't say "I don't want to vote," and not debate or threaten debate (the non-filibuster filibuster I described earlier). It doesn't work that way.

That's exactly the way it worked for a bunch of judicial nominees. The question is how to use the rules to force a Senator to talk.

1,908 posted on 05/12/2005 1:23:12 PM PDT by Cboldt
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