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McConnell: Warren’s blistering Sessions speech broke Senate rules
The Hill ^ | 02/07/17 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 02/07/2017 6:09:42 PM PST by rdl6989

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accused Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) of breaking the Senate’s rules with a blistering floor speech against Sen. Jeff Sessions’s attorney general nomination.

The Senate’s top Republican interrupted Warren’s speech to argue that she was violating the upper chamber’s rules, despite an initial warning by GOP Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), who was presiding over the Senate.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; elizabethwarren; mcconnell; sessions
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To: rdl6989; KC_Lion; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; BillyBoy; ...

Mitch McConnell was surprised today when he looked down and found his happy sack!

Warren shut down, barred from continuing to speak.


61 posted on 02/07/2017 6:39:54 PM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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To: Steely Tom
Re : Post #12 "Democrats make us follow the rules." And they often try to change the rules while the game is still being played...
62 posted on 02/07/2017 6:41:57 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Sen. Crapo objected to the request by Sen. Reed to enter into the record the letter Warren was reading in.

Very forcefully.

Rubio asks if Rule 19 says “directly or indirectly”—it does, in order to enter it into the record.

Now Dems questioning scenarios concerning Rule 19.


63 posted on 02/07/2017 6:42:03 PM PST by exit82
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To: exit82

Remember the clerk who told them Jesus was mad at thier actions. They of course hauled her off to a psych ward. Googled her awhile ago. She says she was sane then and now and that she still loves the lord. Will try to find her name and update again. I believe the Lord was speaking through her.


64 posted on 02/07/2017 6:43:44 PM PST by Panhandle.deporable
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To: SMGFan

Notice Warren does not quote Sessions’ ostensibly “racist” statements from 30 years ago.
She quotes Ted Kennedy’s and Coretta King’s statements in which they accused him -—30 years ago-—of being a racist.
Dem SOP.
Include hearsay and innuendo, but leave out supporting evidence or facts —because there are none, or worse, the facts might contradict the smear.


65 posted on 02/07/2017 6:44:24 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: sport

They still need sessions in the senate to get the rest of the noms through.


66 posted on 02/07/2017 6:45:04 PM PST by ichabod1 (The Wise Cracker)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

“My baby done wrote me a letter”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doYx23gH2D0


67 posted on 02/07/2017 6:45:34 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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Sheldon Whitehouse speaking about the constitution...
I'm shocked that he hasn't burst into flames...
68 posted on 02/07/2017 6:46:12 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: rdl6989

I think this is wonderful. Princess SummerFallWinterSpring will burn out in 24 months.

Dems leading more than 24 months before a contested Presidential election, often even in the Primary, do not get elected in the General, and often are not even nominated!

Hillary 16
Hillary 08
Gore 00
Brown, Tsongas, Kerrey, Gore etc, 92
Gore, Gephardt, Biden (yes, Joe), Dukaukis 88
Mondale, Hart, Glenn 84


69 posted on 02/07/2017 6:46:15 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT

Senator Sheldon “Will never live in the” Whitehouse D/Communist-RI compares Sessions to a “horse thief”.


70 posted on 02/07/2017 6:46:22 PM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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To: ichabod1

Sen. Whitehouse playing Perry Mason now.


71 posted on 02/07/2017 6:46:50 PM PST by exit82
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To: All
This guy controls protocol in the Senate.



He does his job and there is no problem. Being a Navy Seal is a plus.
72 posted on 02/07/2017 6:47:52 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: heterosupremacist

I must be older than you. :-)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWY8UyW9bw


73 posted on 02/07/2017 6:48:00 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: RummyChick

Sen. Rounds who is presiding is an embarrassment!


74 posted on 02/07/2017 6:49:42 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: rdl6989

Clerk was stenographer Dianne Reidy . Says the Holy Spirit came to her the night before and told her to tell congress God was angry with them. Married mother of two. No regrets. Husband proud of his “level headed” wife.


75 posted on 02/07/2017 6:49:47 PM PST by Panhandle.deporable
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Gawd...Rubio the adult in the room. Whodathunk?


76 posted on 02/07/2017 6:50:04 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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Rubio on his soapbox...


77 posted on 02/07/2017 6:50:54 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: Impy

His argument was dumb as he is.

IF it was established FACT that a Senator was a horse thief, that is something that could be discussed.

What Warren did was read an OPINION of others 30 years which was UNSUBSTANTIATED.

He thought he won a Supreme Court case—he made himself look even more foolish as usual.

Rubio up now. Rubio says neither Clinton nor Kerry ever had anything on their past brought up on the record.


78 posted on 02/07/2017 6:51:00 PM PST by exit82
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Rubio on fire. He’s doing great.


79 posted on 02/07/2017 6:51:19 PM PST by Timmy
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To: rdl6989
We've learned these past couple of weeks that there is not ONE Democrat Senator who will stand up for the country and the Constitution if doing so conflicts with the goals of their party.

It's easy to imagine the Democrats of three decades ago having a stern private talk with the Warrens and the Frankens among them. No longer.

80 posted on 02/07/2017 6:53:18 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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