Senate Coverage -- (December '05)

Thomas ^ | 12-12-05 | US Congress

[OXENinFLA]

Since "Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America.", I and others think it's a good idea to centralize what the goes on in the Senate (or House).

So if you see something happening on the Senate/House floor and you don't want to start a new thread to ask if anyone else just heard what you heard, you can leave a short note on who said what and about what and I'll try and find it the next day in THE RECORD. Or if you see a thread that pertains to the Senate, House, or pretty much any GOV'T agency please link your thread here.

If you have any suggestions for this thread please feel free to let me know.

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Here's a few helpful links.

C-SPAN what a great thing. Where you can watch or listen live to most Government happenings.

C-SPAN 1 carries the HOUSE.

C-SPAN 2 carries the SENATE.

C-SPAN 3 (most places web only) carries a variety of committee meetings live or other past programming.

OR FEDNET has online feed also.

A great thing about our Government is they make it really easy for the public to research what the Politicians are doing and saying (on the floor anyway).

THOMAS where you can see a RECORD of what Congress is doing each day. You can also search/read a verbatim text of what each Congressmen/women or Senator has said on the floor or submitted 'for the record.' [This is where the real juicy stuff can be found.]

Also found at Thomas are Monthly Calendars for the Senate Majority and Senate Minority

And Monthly Calendars for the House Majority and Roll Call Votes can be found here.

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OTHER LINKS

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Congress.org

The Founders' Constitution

THE WHITE HOUSE

THE WAR DEPARTMENT (aka The Dept. of Defense)

LIVE DoD Briefings

NEWSEUM: TODAY'S FRONT PAGES

THE HILL

CNSNEWS

CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

[Mo1]

I've never seen him like this either ... must have been a good lunch .. LOL!

[ken5050]

Frist said on FOX Sunday that if the Dems filabuster he will break it by changing the rules...BTW..notice that no one has heard from the "Gang of 14" of late?

[tiredoflaundry]

:-)

[Bahbah]

Did the good doctor have a "few" at lunch? I have never seen him this "animated".

I volunteer to buy him his drinks at lunch. :)

[tiredoflaundry]

LOL!

[LisaFab]

BTW..notice that no one has heard from the "Gang of 14" of late?

Betcha Frist has heard from at least two. ;-)

[Cboldt]

Harkin said he expects a filibuster. Biden mentioned, Boxer mentioned, Feingold says it's "perfectly fine to use a filibuster," Reid mentioned too.

Quite predictable the subject would come up - I'm surprized it was the first discussion of the day. But Myers has been on the Exec Calendar since March.

[tiredoflaundry]

Maybe he had some of this from Madame Pomfrey?

[Cboldt]

Boxer said filibuster was on the table. What constitutes a threat?

"I will filibuster." or "This nominee is an extraordinary circumstance."

Feingold said filibuster is on the table too ("perfectly fine to ues the filibuster"), but hasn't said that Alito represents an extraordinary circumstance.

[Bahbah]

LOL. Bubbly has that effect on me too. Oh, Byrd back up saying he head no talk of filibuster. I guess he wasn't listening.

[LisaFab]

Wow. Sheets looks and acts worse than I've ever seen him. May God bless the old coot.

[tiredoflaundry]

He just told Frist he may be a brilliant physician, but this is the US Senate.

[Mo1]

Did Bryd just insult Frist ... that he is just a doctor and THIS is the United States Senate

[Bahbah]

You can speak all you want, Sheets, but at some point you have to stand up and vote.

[tiredoflaundry]

Turnip truck analogy!

[ken5050]

I hope the Dems are stupid enough to filabuster..

[Mo1]

"I will filibuster." or "This nominee is an extraordinary circumstance."

I think we all know what the Dems mean when they mention the word filibuster

[Bahbah]

If this is the best that the dems can put up, they must have given up the idea of a filibuster.

[OXENinFLA]

I've been listening, while doing some Christmas shopping on Amazon.

The filibuster fight is on IMO.

[LisaFab]

I do believe he will soon keel over, right on the Senate floor.

Now feigning shock. Says he will "die" for the right to freedom of speech.

Yup, will happen soon I'm afraid.