Posted on 05/18/2005 5:48:45 AM PDT by ken5050
Welcome, all you Freepers, to the continuing C-span soap operas about judicial nominations. "The Guiding SEARCHLIGHT, " "As the SENATE Turns, "One NOMINATION to Live" "GERIATRIC Hospital" (for all you Byrd and Lautenberg fans out there). Follow along with us, as the Dems raise the level of histrionics, bloviation, pontification, and all around bad acting to new highs, er, lows...
I don't disagree, but it might get awfully smelly because IMHO every sphincter in that chamber would open up if a REAL filibuster ever happened, because I don't think there's a soul in there, in either party, who could handle it. Frist has shown some spine that I didn't think he had so far, but I simply don't think he has the coglioni to do a real filibuster.
I'm trying to listen to Leahy but all I hear is Blah, Blah, Blah....
Dear God, he's talking about Mike Mansfield??
I need to take a shower and then Leahy started talking. Think I'll wait until after he speaks, as I will surely need one then! LOL
Not sure if we have to excerpt CQ or not, but here goes:
CQ TODAY
May 17, 2005 – 10:53 p.m.
Senate Rules Mark the Path to a ‘Nuclear’ Showdown on Judicial Nominations Here’s the step-by-step choreography of the floor fight expected to begin Thursday:
1. Majority Leader Bill Frist will make a motion Wednesday to “proceed to executive session for consideration of” the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the 5th Circuit appeals court. Under Senate Rule XXII, a motion to proceed to a nomination cannot be filibustered. Such motions are normally adopted by voice vote. Democrats say they won’t object. If they do and a roll call vote is necessary, a simple majority of senators present and voting would be needed to proceed to the nomination.
2. Debate will officially begin and continue for an unspecified amount of time.
3. Later, Frist will file a motion to invoke cloture, or limit additional debate on the nomination.
4. The Senate will vote on Frist’s cloture motion two legislative days after it is filed, with 60 votes required for its adoption.
5. If the cloture motion is adopted, further debate on the nomination will be limited to 30 hours in total, with no single senator allowed to speak for more than one hour. At the end of that period, the Senate will proceed to a vote on the nominee, with a simple majority needed for confirmation.
(The process ends here.)
OR
If there are fewer than 60 votes to invoke cloture, debate on the nomination can continue indefinitely. Additional cloture motions can be filed, but Frist has something else in mind.
6. If the cloture motion fails, as is expected, Frist will later make a point of order that no more than a certain number of hours or days of debate should be allowed on appellate court and Supreme Court nominations.
7. The presiding officer — probably Vice President Dick Cheney — will rule in Frist’s favor.
8. Democrats will appeal that decision.
9. Frist will make a motion to table, or kill, the appeal. A tabling motion is not debatable, and requires a simple majority for adoption.
10. The Senate will vote on the tabling motion.
11. If the motion to table the Democratic appeal is agreed to, debate on the judicial nomination will continue until the time specified in Frist’s point of order has been exhausted. Then, the Senate will vote on the nominee, with a simple majority of those present and voting required for confirmation.
OR
If the tabling motion is defeated,the Republicans would be unable to bring Owen’s nomination to a vote with a simple majority.
Source: CQ Today
Round-the-clock coverage of news from Capitol Hill.
© 2005 Congressional Quarterly Inc. All Rights Reserved
C'mon Jane! If we had the stomach to watch them squirm out of convicting the i42, we can take this!
Look up "it" please!
Leahy calls Frist his friend than states he is doing this for political reasons. LOL
hey leahy, how many calls have you gotten from moveon'org and DU?
Specter may very well vote against Owen. But I think he'll vote for cloture and to at least give her a vote.
I saw Leahy and that's all for me..This is not going to end today .
Exactly. We don't have a loyal opposition in this country any more, haven't had for a long time. There is no honest discussion, sharing of ideas and working toward the common good.
Just loyal obstructionism and leftist activism. That's what we've got in the DemonRAT party anymore. Sad and sick.
Harry Reid is a Sunday school teacher.
Hillary as a Sunday school teacher
Yeah, but Owens believes what she taught. By their fruits ye will know them.
Democrat Christian is an oxymoron. Ted "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy and John Kerry are "pro-death Catholics"!!!!!!
A picture of "Belly Girl" will probably be posted with claim to it.
Can you please post here the editorial in NRO just up..it's really good...NO COMPROMISE... thanks..I have to go do some work..sigh..
All Leahy is doing is repeating what Reid said, and what they have been saying over and over for weeks---
He is blaming special interests for MAKING the Republican senators for doing this evil deed---
I guess that makes US, American voters, special interests, huh?
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