Posted on 06/26/2007 12:42:58 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
Pajamas Media has learned that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may be using an “unprecedented combination of legislative procedures” to push through the controversial Kennedy Immigration Bill - today! In fact, it may already be in progress by the time you read this.
...Rocketing through Republican Washington is a memo predicting Sen. Harry Reid will use a unprecedented combination of legislative procedures to shove through the immigration bill today—without real opposition...
...[former Secretary for the Majority and Minority in the U.S. Senate, Elizabeth B. Letchworth] calls it “The Reid scenario," which she says will kick off in less than two hours from this writing. Letchwork writes in an email: “The Reid scenario of offering amendments in strategic places in order to block any and all other amendments will commence when they return from their weekly party caucuses @ 2:15PM. [Today, Eastern] At the end of the amendment. offering process Sen. Reid will file cloture on the bill."
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Make that MeCain, Bush, Kennedy Immigration Bill !!
If they are going to have a second cloture vote this week, Thursday or Friday, he has to file it either today or tomorrow so it will have time to ‘ripen.’
It appears to be an existing article that a note of preface was hastily added and then posted. I think the note means Dirty Harry is pulling a fast one TODAY.
Who knows? We expect them to follow the rules, but with the fix in from both sides, how can we tell what they will do? These rules are basically agreed parliamentary procedures of the Senate, but if they decide to change them in midstream, who will object, as long as they have a majority in favor and both parties are on board?
I hope that’s wrong, but I don’t feel much confidence in the virtue, honor, honesty, patriotism, morality, or fairness of most senators.
Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
Who in the HECK...thinks THAT anymore?
Today on RUsh Limbaugh, Rush mentioned there was going to be a cloture vote on Thursday, and he basically said- “I didn’t know they were going to have one on Thursday, I found it on a website and just learned of it.”
So my point is, if Rush doesn’t know the voting schedule, and it’s his job to keep up on those things, he and his staff— then how are -we- supposed to keep up with this nonsense
“These rules are basically agreed parliamentary procedures of the Senate, but if they decide to change them in midstream, who will object, as long as they have a majority in favor and both parties are on board?”
The senate rules expert, Senator Byrd. And before you start bashing him, look how he voted and tell me where you disagree with his stance at:
http://byrd.senate.gov/newsroom/news_may/focus_on_border_security_not_amnesty.html
His stubbornness and knowledge of senate rules may be what saves us.
ping
Bump!
They could FILIBUSTER any shenanigans, force a vote on the filibuster of them ramming it through contrary to the rules . . .
Am I right?
I suspect he wont do it becuase he has to get it rhough the house and this would really aggfravte things more than anything else.
bttt
Conservatives expect liberals to be sneaky little creeps.
I believe the filibuster is only possible if there is no cloture. Sixty votes can end a filibuster and limit the amount of talk allowed.
I hope you’re right. I THINK you’re right, but just now I’m not feeling confident about anything.
The senate rules expert, Senator Byrd. And before you start bashing him, look how he voted and tell me where you disagree with his stance at:
His KKK instincts won’t allow him to accept a bunch of little brown people overruning the country.
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