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To: ken5050
I just checked all of the cloture votes in Calendar 2003. Owen had 4 of them. Only two DEMs voted to invoke cloture, Zell Miller and Nelson, of Nebraska.

The only other DEMs that voted for cloture in any of those (Brown, Kuhl, Owen (4 votes), Pryor (2 votes), Pickering and Estrada (7 votes)) were Breaux and Nelson of Florida.

Did you catch Frist's presser just now? He said debate until debate is exhausted (did not give a time certain), and he also did not give the name of the nominee he would bring up. He did note that he preferred unanimous consent to take the vote.

Now that puts pressure on the DEMs to stand up and voice their objections, and then to get on with it. While they certainly have the technical right to object to taking the vote, it is hard to sell the imposition of a 60 vote supermajority for handling nominees.

18 posted on 05/17/2005 11:13:44 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Many Dems are being forced to support the filabuster, but they willbe allowd to vote FOR the nominees when they come up for a vote...That , IMHO, is the Dem's ticking time bomb...A red-state Dem who votes against EVERY Bush nominee will have a hard time explaining how he speaks for the values of his state..


19 posted on 05/17/2005 11:19:46 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have kids ASAP to pass on her gene pool..any volunteers?)
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