Posted on 01/23/2015 7:01:55 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) late Thursday left Democrats angry and sputtering on the Senate floor, as he used his new power as majority leader to brush off several Democratic amendments in an effort to speed up work on a bill to approve the Keystone pipeline.
McConnell has so far made a point of allowing amendment votes, something Democrats barely allowed for the last few years. Earlier Thursday, McConnell boasted that the Senate had already held more amendment votes on the Keystone bill than Democrats allowed during all of 2014.
“We’ve actually reached a milestone here that I think’s noteworthy for the Senate,” McConnell said after the 15th amendment vote. “This is the way the Senate ought to work.”
But McConnell has also said the Senate can’t work on the Keystone bill forever, a warning that he wants to finish it up at some point in the near future.
Late Thursday night, McConnell said the new open process in the Senate led members of both parties to propose a new wave of amendments that he wanted to deal with immediately. He asked senators for an agreement to vote on a series of 12 amendments right then and there.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) objected, and said Democrats would be ready to keep working on these amendments on Friday. But McConnell dismissed that and said the Senate should be ready to work on them now. With no agreement, he said his only choice was to start a series of votes to table, or kill, all Democratic amendments.
“Given the fact that they’re reluctant to vote on their own amendments… the only way to go forward is to table their amendments,” he said.
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It's fun to watch the video and see idiot Ed Markey completely shut down. Also nice to see Ben Sasse presiding over the Senate!
Mitch McConnell is going to a much better Majority Leader than anyone expected.
I never thought I would say it, but
Mitch McConnell exerts his majority leader power AGAINST Democrats!!?
The Porcine Air Force is now preparing for takeoff.
We should know by now that most of the jobs created by the pipeline will be Union jobs which means the final price will be greatly bloated and a huge chunk of the money appropriated for it will end up back in 'RAT campaign accounts and there will be billions if not trillions of dollar of pork attached to it.
Maybe so! Maybe his actual gender will become visible too.
“Mitch McConnell is going to a much better Majority Leader than anyone expected.’
We’ll see. He’s gonna have to do more than this to get me to trust him though. (cautiously hopeful).
If that is true, why is Obamba and most Dims dead set against it? That makes no sense!
After using sleazy procedural chicanery to engineer a government takeover of health care — The ‘Rats can’t complain about something as trivial as this.
Hairy Roid was squealing about it on twitter.
My response.
Being in the minority is a bitch ain’t it?
Barack Obama - “Elections have consequences.”
They sure do President Fumblebutt.
I hear he tabled an amendment by Harry Reid to outlaw motorized treadmills.
Nonsense, do you think we will use less because the price is low?
Canada Doesn’t Need Keystone XL to Win U.S. Crude Supply Battle
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-08/canada-wins-u-s-crude-supply-battle-without-keystone-xl.html
Exports by rail have more than tripled to a record 182,000 barrels a day in the third quarter, from about 57,000 barrels a day two years earlier, according to Canada’s National Energy Board....
Due to investments already committed, oil-sands production is poised to rise 36 percent to at least 2.6 million barrels a day by 2017, Peters & Co., a Calgary-based investment bank, said in a November forecast.
Projects now under construction will require 1 million barrels a day of new pipeline space, said Chris Cox, an analyst at Raymond James Ltd. in Calgary.
“What you should expect this year is that all incremental heavy oil barrels are effectively going to be transported by rail,” Cox said....
Are you serious about this?
They can, and they will.
Then Obama will issue an Executive Order that all Democrat votes count 3x as much as the Republicans do, giving the majority back to the Dems.
Sorry forgot the tag /s
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