mrs smith
Posted on 02/01/2010 12:30:49 PM PST by jazusamo
Despite a promise that he would not "rush" important votes before Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown is seated sometime next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, has scheduled a Monday vote on the contentious nomination of M. Patricia Smith to be solicitor for the Department of Labor.
Mrs. Smith, now New York's labor commissioner, has come under fire from conservatives and some business groups for the state's "Wage Watch" program. The project, which started in January 2009, enlisted unions and advocacy groups to visit private businesses, educate employers about labor laws and report potential wage violations to the government.
Sen. Michael B. Enzi, Wyoming Republican, who is the ranking minority member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has put a hold on her nomination and asked President Obama to withdraw his nominee, charging that she gave inconsistent testimony before the panel about the program.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Lies seem to be more contagious than swine flu with Dems!
Fellow Massachusetts patriots: might it be time for a Boston Tea Party on Beacon Hill, to demand the certification and seating of our duty elected Senator? We are being taxed without legitimate representation at this point - the Kennedy placeholder has no mandate to be casting votes anymore.
I’m pissed.
mrs smith
ah, another Maoist despot, sending union worker armies out into the private workplace to report on the capitalist overlords
a perfect manager for the Lord obama’s planned civilian army
Wow. Another nightmare Marxist. The Dems really do want to go down in flames in November, don’t they?
out one of
She is so ugly! ... Her face isn’t anything to praise, either.
Can a hold not be placed on these people?
If all the Repubs walked out, would the dems still have
a quorum? Could they do anything?
Enzi has a hold on Smith and 60 votes is needed to overcome it.
Season of the Witch
ORDERS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 2 p.m. Monday, February 1; that following the prayer and the pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed to have expired, and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day; that the Senate then proceed to a period of morning business until 3 p.m., with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each; that following morning business, the Senate proceed to executive session to debate the nomination of Patricia Smith; finally, I ask that the RECORD remain open until 12 noon today for the introduction of legislation, submission of statements, and cosponsors requests. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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PROGRAM
Mr. REID. Mr. President, the next vote will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday. That will be on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Patricia Smith to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor.
I announced earlier that the vote on Monday will end at 5:50 p.m. If somebody’s plane is late, or whatever the situation, that is what it is going to have to be. We have to close that vote for procedural purposes, as everybody knows.
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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