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.
Weve actually reached a milestone here that I thinks 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 cant 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 theyre reluctant to vote on their own amendments
the only way to go forward is to table their amendments, he said.
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So the Rats demand more time to study a few obstructionist amendments, but had no problem voting for Obamacare with minimal debate and without first reading the bill.
It’s a nice beginning.
Turtle and Weeper are assholes ... but we’re stuck with them for the present. We should excoriate them when they do wrong; we should not forget to praise them when they do right. Turtle is doing right, here.
Wow! Damn there is hope for Mitch McConnell. Go man, hit these communists Democrats hard.
That’s ok, so did Blennos.
Exactly. Oil is low right now for the sole purpose of persuading us not to develop our capacity. If we stop, OPEC will turn the screw again.
But remember who's pulling his strings.
See, if all the treadmills, ALL of them were hooked up
to generators and that fed into the system, why think
of the money saved and the weight lost. /s
In this insane world, I cannot distinguish sarcasm from reality.
Inviting Netanyahu without consulting the donkeys was a stroke of genius. They have major butthurt.
That’s a rather negative view that doesn’t take note of the future......
if you build it, they will come. That which is flowing can be sold
buying and selling makes the world go round
Get over it, Dems. Y’all have been doing things no one likes for years.
Mitch asked himself, “What would Harry have done?”
If he’d allowed a number of showboating amendments to be voted on, what’s wrong with putting a stop to it? Harry wouldn’t have even allowed those.
Since Reid cannot block by not bringing bills to the floor, the minority will block by endless amendments to every, single bill.
End result is the same. No bills reach the president’s desk.
Saw through it. Your done and done.
I think that still remains to be seen. Right now, I think he's just enjoying working out whatever frustration he was feeling last year.
Yeah, like posting "Did you know Obama is letting Iran get almost 12 billion dollars this year?"
lol
That was indeed sweet.
What goes around comes around. LOL!
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