Posted on 06/10/2005 7:14:16 PM PDT by Libloather
but two judges still remain filibustered, Saad and someone else. Bush's UN nominee, Bolton, is still filibustered.
The language says they will be fillibustered, but I just made a bet that Saad will get confirmed. Truthfully I'm not confident I will win, but before the agreement 7 of 7 judges were not confirmed. Now 5 are. I have faith that Saad will get his vote. IMO the nuclear option would have given cover for the rats and it is likely many of the 5 confirmed judges would have lost the vote. rats would have been so angry that RINOs would not have confirmed Pryor or Brown.
On March 21st I posted this "The real pay off is going to be the judges who will have a long term impact. The rats are obstructing some judges but I'm starting to think we will get them confirmed without using a nuclear option, but if not the obstructions will help us elect more Republicans in 06( hopefully enough to get 60 Senate seats) but we are already confirming some great judges to replace rat judges. And it's happening on state levels too. Having majorities in state legislatures and Governor seats is helping elect Republican judges. The problem is it takes time."
Also, in the future the deal calls for a return to status quo....is that correct? Everyone is now free to filibuster, fight, nuke, whatever?
That's the way I read it too.
A short summary of all the Circuit Court Nominations is below. At this moment in time, no judge is being held up, and no judge (other than Griffith) is being advanced.
Bolton's cloture vote is "hanging fire." If Frist's Motion to Reconsider passes (the Motion to Reconsider passes on a simple majority), then the cloture vote will be conducted again. The results of the first cloture vote will be "as if that vote never happened." The timing on taking up the motion to reconsider is indefinite - probably after the Energy Bill.
Aren't the two judges being held up by 'holds' from the Michigan Senators rather than filibustered?..... Saad and Neilson.
Neilson is not contentious at all. In fact, Reid already offered to vote on her nomination. Of the others, the chart is helpful to figure out which is more likely to be brought to the floor first, which is likely to trigger some interesting parliamentary moves, etc.
F = 7 subjected to failed cloture motions in 108th Congress
4 = "1 of 4" that DEMs offered to let GOP choose which 3 to dump
S = Positive mention in Specter's May 9, 2005 speech
M = MOU of 14 will not vote against cloture
m = MOU of 14 makes no promise regarding cloture
R = Reid indicates desire to filibuster
C = Out of committee & on the Senate's Executive Calendar
U = Unanimous consent to debate - date TBD
D = Democrats offer to debate - date TBD
v = Debate and vote scheduled
V = Vote -on the nomination- concluded
--S -- --- Boyle, Terrence W. (4th Cir)
--- -R --- Haynes, William James II (4th Cir)
F4S M- CUV Owen, Priscilla (5th Cir)
F-S -- CUV Griffin, Richard A. (6th Cir)
F-S -- CUV McKeague, David W. (6th Cir)
--S -- -D- Neilson, Susan Bieke (6th Cir)
F-- mR --- Saad, Henry W. (6th Cir)
F4S mR C-- Myers, William Gerry III (9th Cir)
F4S M- CUV Pryor, William H. (11th Cir)
F4S M- CUV Brown, Janice Rogers (D.C. Cir)
--S -- CUv Griffith, Thomas B. (D.C. Cir)
--- -R --- Kavanaugh, Brett M. (D.C. Cir)
Last updated, June 9, 2005
Owen: Cloture passed 81-18 on May 24. Confirmed 55-43 on May 25.
Brown: Cloture passed 65-32 on June 7. Confirmed 56-43 on June 8.
Pryor: Cloture passed 67-32 on June 8. Confirmed 53-45 on June 9.
Griffin: Confirmed 95-0 on June 9.
McKeague: Confirmed 96-0 on June 9.
Griffith: 4 Hr. debate Monday, June 13. Vote 10 AM, June 14.
-> Cloture Motions for 108th Congress
-> List of Nominations in the 109th Congress Judiciary Committee
-> Senate Executive Calendar (changes each business day)
-> Senate Roll Call Votes - 109th Congress
-> Specter's Speech of May 9, 2005 (109th Congress - Pages S4632 - S4636)
-> Senators' Memorandum of Understanding - May 23, 2005
-> Reid's agreement of May 24, 2005 (S5857)
-> Brown & Pryor cloture motions of May 26, 2005 (S6061)
-> Order of Business for June 6, 2005 (S6065)
-> AP Report Reid wants to filibuster Haynes & Kavanaugh - May 28, 2005
-> Fox News Report Reid will filibuster Saad & Myers - May 29, 2005
-> Boyle was nominated to 4th Cir. in 1991 too, by GHWB
Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, as we try to complete the business we have been addressing over the last several weeks, the one remaining item we have not really settled on is the Bolton nomination. I filed a motion to reconsider that vote. There are a lot of ongoing discussions. That is very important business that we need to address in the near future, and we will continue to discuss, as we have over the last couple of days, what the appropriate time is for that nomination to be brought back. I intend to do that.
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Mr. President, I will yield the floor. We will continue to vote on judges this week, and then next week we will be turning our attention to lowering energy prices, to lowering natural gas prices for Americans, and we will be on that bill until completion. That is the Energy bill.109th Congress - Page S6175 - June 8, 2005
109th Congress - Page S6176 - June 8, 2005
Nothing that I said warrants your remark. Take your remark and stick someplace appropriate.
No. You tell that to the millions of babies aborted every year. You are the one that considers it to be a law, I dont. Congress never passed it. No President ever signed it.
The national right to life has also sold out in the past. In 2000, they backed Bush because they felt the threat of McCain. I don't blame them completely for it, but they could have backed Keyes over Bush in 2000.
Fine.
Aren't the two judges being held up by 'holds' from the Michigan Senators rather than filibustered?..... Saad and Neilson.
It means he's anti-hammer, anti-wrench AND anti-screwdriver...
The shirt on the girl in the picture says "Democrats are sexy *** whoever heard of a nice piece of elephant?"
I couldn't help but wonder if Democrats often made it with animals. :)
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