Posted on 09/22/2020 6:28:09 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer invoked the "two-hour rule" Tuesday, a measure that constrains the scheduling and duration of Senate committee meetings.
The move is intended to retaliate against Republicans, who have agreed to vote on confirming President Trump's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.
Under the rule, no Senate committee or subcommittee can meet after the Senate has been in session for two hours or after 2 p.m. The move potentially delays a briefing on national security and a confirmation hearing for Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf.
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Just call the vote. Problem solved.
Isn’t that an “arrow in our quiver,” as Pegrossi would say?
Reverse for the Republicans...they have "quivers in their arrows"...scared to use them.
Schumer is a political terrorist.
That’s right. Ramming through Obamacare without a single Republican vote would lead to retaliation. The main stream media doesn’t want to cover that.
The Founders would string up or imprison most of them.
Do you promise to slit your wrists with dignity, if the seat is filled before the election?
No kidding.
Chuck Schumer = Satan’s Pimp
Skip the hearing and go straight to the floor for the vote. There is nothing in the Constitution requiring a hearing. It is just a Senate rule that came into being many years after the birth of the nation. A hearing was probably added for some particular reason which went away afterwards, but the rule didn’t. The rule Hearing rule can go away now as it is not needed.
These fools are an embarrassment to our cou.
Sounds like a good deal. Skip all hearings. Vote up or down on everything. Leave them out of it all.
No committee investigation is required and has not always been used. Just put the nominee up for a vote and be done with it. It can be done in a day.
1. time for the Presidential Adjournment Clause.
2. then arrest the criminals.
3. see number 2.
The Turtle should move Chuck You’s office to the back of the EOB.
Right next to the Janitor’s Closet.
Barney agrees. ..., nip it in the bud. ..
https://youtu.be/OSyueBoC9mE
Why are Democrat scum even permitted to participate in matters that only require majority vote.
It’s like negotiating with 4 year olds having a temper tantrum.
4 year old screeching evil howler monkeys, that is.
They should be excluded from all Senate business that does not require their presence. Act like infants. Be treated like infants.
Democrats bring nothing of value to the table.
I don’t really believe that the Constitution allows one Senator the power to close down Senate proceedings all by himself. It that were the case, nothing would ever get done.
So we do what the Democrats have sworn to do whenever they control the Senate: Change the rules.
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