Recess for President’s Day http://www.senate.gov/legislative/2016_schedule.htm
Their schedule doesn’t make any difference to what they were elected to do... and took an oath to follow, also that thing that barry called a piece of paper.
However, I think that I understand your reply.
Thank you for posting that, it’s very helpful, especially the calendar format here: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/resources/pdf/2016_calendar.pdf
This is crucial. I cannot stress enough, how important this is. We must not let Obama succeed at this. He is going to nominate an appointee on Tuesday, this is guaranteed. He’s going to do it, and we must be prepared to stop him.
The key will be showing that the recess the Senate is on now is not an “extended” recess. This is the precedent that, in the past, has been used to support recess appointments. One week is not an “extended” recess. Obama is going to claim that it is, this is guaranteed. We must not let him succeed.
We must harass the Senate with phone calls and/or e-mails come Monday, February 22. At that time, Obama will have already nominated an appointee, and will be claiming it’s due to an “extended” recess.
If I’m wrong about this, then I’m wrong, we will find out Tuesday Feb 16. But I don’t think I am wrong. He is going to nominate someone then, and claim the precedent of “extended recess” in trying to keep his nominee. Then he will try to bully the Senate as he always has, to keep his nominee. We must stop this.
We must stop him, by stopping our own infighting (Cruz/Trump wars), at least temporarily. This is far too important. This will have decades lasting implications. We must focus on stopping Obama, use the energy we’ve been using supporting “our” candidate stopping Obama now. Or else the election itself will be meaningless, whomever the nominee is. We thought we could wait until after the election, at least, to worry about SC nominees. We were wrong. It’s time to wake up to this reality and adapt to the situation.
Stop the infighting! Stop Obama!