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Rand Paul blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report
The Hill ^ | 4/4/19 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 04/05/2019 8:13:33 AM PDT by Openurmind

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia probe be made public, marking the fifth time Republicans have blocked the House-passed measure.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked for unanimous consent on Thursday to pass the resolution, which cleared the House in a 420-0 vote earlier this year.

"What we're talking about is basic transparency, let's make sure the full Mueller report is released to Congress … and then let's make sure the American people see as much of this report as possible," Warner said from the Senate floor.

He added that to warn future campaigns and candidates about potential election interference "we need to fully understand what the Russians were trying to do."

Under Senate rules, any one senator can request that any bill or resolution be passed. But because it requires the signoff of every senator, any one senator can also block their request.

Paul objected because Warner wouldn't agree to amend the nonbinding House-passed resolution to include provisions calling for the public release of communications between several Obama-era officials including former President Obama, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: mueller; muellerreport; paul; randpaul; robertmueller; senate
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To: Openurmind

Could someone here please explain the House 420 to 0 Vote to release the Report?

I would assume that would be the Legal Redacted Report, but the talking head Democrats keep referring to this Vote to release the full unredacted Report when attacking the GOP Senate not going along.


21 posted on 04/05/2019 9:08:32 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: b4its2late
" It’s Barr’s job"

The way I understand it, it's a matter of existing law that the grand jury info is secret, and I may be wrong about that, because it's what I heard on the media.

22 posted on 04/05/2019 9:23:09 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Just changed my Amazon Smile donation to Judicial Watch!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Rand Paul is a follower??????????? Riiiight.


23 posted on 04/05/2019 9:25:39 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Just changed my Amazon Smile donation to Judicial Watch!)
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To: Openurmind

Good. The release will come with the classified sensitive and grand- jury sections redacted as required by law.


24 posted on 04/05/2019 9:27:24 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: All
Ted Cruz = ALL of the Mueller should be released
25 posted on 04/05/2019 9:36:21 AM PDT by JonPreston ( The GOPe is on board with the North American Union and the European Union.)
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To: Openurmind
Now why would Warner want to do that?....."Paul objected because Warner wouldn't agree to amend the nonbinding House-passed resolution to include provisions calling for the public release of communications between several Obama-era officials including former President Obama, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan."

We're getting closer to Obama and gang's skullduggery all the time.

26 posted on 04/05/2019 9:54:05 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Openurmind

Why aren’t we demanding the minutes from the gang of eight? Heard there are some things they don’t want the public to know.


27 posted on 04/05/2019 9:56:36 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: Openurmind

Just last week Rand Paul was hated here.


28 posted on 04/05/2019 10:05:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (When only the best Santa will do...call Joe Biden)
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To: griswold3

Good for Senator Paul.

yup


29 posted on 04/05/2019 10:16:36 AM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: Kickass Conservative
I think the House GOP has decided not to get baited into this stuff. If anyone voted against this meaningless show-and-tell resolution they know they would be facing ads like this:

"Representative Badperson voted to bury the Mueller report and help Trump get away with his Russian Collusion. We can't afford Representative Badperson's Russian Collusion. Vote for candidate Gaycolor this November sixth."

30 posted on 04/05/2019 10:19:54 AM PDT by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: b4its2late

Release of its info is determine by law. Congress must change the law if they want access.


31 posted on 04/05/2019 10:21:00 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: wardaddy
Just last week Rand Paul was hated here.

He's in third place for GOPers we love to hate. Second place is Lindsey Graham. The Gold is held by Ted Cruz, who went from hero, to zero (his graceless non-concession speech at the Convention) back to good guy (with a beard!).

Rand's oscillations in Freeper emotion are a little less than those two, so far.

32 posted on 04/05/2019 10:22:52 AM PDT by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: antidemoncrat

Right.


33 posted on 04/05/2019 10:30:23 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: matthew fuller

And any other secrets.


34 posted on 04/05/2019 10:31:17 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: falcon99

Right. As in the in the Starr Report......


35 posted on 04/05/2019 10:32:11 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Jack Black

Rand is like a wave in the ocean. LOL.


36 posted on 04/05/2019 10:32:53 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Jack Black

He is also down to earth.


37 posted on 04/05/2019 10:36:11 AM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: Truthoverpower

Did a quick search, didn’t see anything. What did Nunes put out today?


38 posted on 04/05/2019 10:55:44 AM PDT by Delmarksman (Pro 2A Anglican American (Ford and Chevy kill more people than guns do, lets ban them))
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To: wardaddy

give it another week and he’ll be back on the list.


39 posted on 04/05/2019 2:51:28 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Openurmind

“we need to fully understand what the Russians were trying to do.”


Lying sack of excrement.


40 posted on 04/05/2019 2:57:29 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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