[Cboldt]

-- They get to set their own rules. --

Including things such as a 20% vote is a majority, and a 1% presence is a quorum? I mean, I know they SAY they are in session (which implies a quorum is present), but are they really in session?

Reid was wrong when he did it (ran fake sessions, by calling a nearly empty chamber a session), and now the Republicans are saying it was okay. Nonsense on stilts. Oh well, it's one place where the Republicans and Democrats are in complete agreement - non-sessions are sessions.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Anyoine have a list of the senators who signed ?

[Ratman83]

Article 1 Section 5 Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

The Constitution is the Constitution, they get to set the rules of thier chamber.

Additionally an adjorunment is not a recess

[newzjunkey]

Pro-forma sessions are as old as the Republic itself. One chamber can’t adjourn for more than three days without consent of the other chamber. It’s a constitutional requirement.