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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He cannot block McConnell’s call for a vote.
Why not Barrett? I figured this was the best choice?
It can be done tomorrow. No idea why Trump is waiting till Saturday to even just nominate his pick.
Easy solution
If the nominee has already been vetted by the senate for current judgeship then go straight to floor vote
I don’t know.
Drag their butts in before session and after session. Make them stay until 3:00 in the morning. Less time for them to play to the cameras.
You know the most dangerous place on capital hill is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.
I have been saying that for some time that Cocaine Mitch has allowed him to run or lead the senate.
There is no requirement for committee hearings for any nominee to be confirmed...
Thats true, but that was the final vote which could have been blocked. There was an R vote against the filibuster.
Traitor RINO Kay Bailey Hutchison broke ranks to allow a vote, dropping opposition to below the 40 vote threshold, which would have prevented the vote. She said it should be voted on and get senators positions on the record. Worthless gutless wonder wanted to get home didn’t want to be inconvenienced. Also itching to get out of DC for Texas so she could run for/ be anointed Governor, she thought, on her way to the presidency. Worthless POS b-word. This must be forgotten, Trump made this c-word the NATO ambassador iirc.
Anybody know how she got nominated to be a congressional candidate in the first place? Some kind of Houston Republican party king makers, maybe another Bushie New England liberal crony operation. I think there was a family connection, like her husband a muckety muck in the party (state party chairman or close to?) or something.
There was never a vetting or adequate primary, it was an anointment, and then either vote for her or a D. Same as the Senate nomination. Or so it seemed.
Sooner or later every RINO will betray you when the chips are down. Romney is about average, not even worse than what comes out of the Bush orbit and the plutocrat oil carpetbagger class from Houston, Texas.
Just skip the committee altogether. Amy was vetted already. Just bring the nomination to the floor.
Yep. And President Trump is just the man to play it that way.
Screw them. I am damned sick and tired of their games. One of the most enjoyable political things in my entire life is the whining and howling over Judicial Nominees ever since the Leftist scum Harry Reid changed the rules.
Love it.
Every single time, they wail...and I think...every time...”How do you like those apples, you Leftist turds?”
They brought that on themselves, which makes it sweeter.
I can’t predict the future, but if Trump wins in a historic landslide, and we win back the house and keep the Senate...the fact that it would be an utter repudiation of the Left’s conduct over the last four years, not to mention their conduct in the last four to six months with the COVID-19 stuff and the riots.
That would be sweet. Don’t think we will get the House back, but hey. I do like to think there IS a silent majority that is sick to death of the riots, violence, looting, and burning.
It would be nice to see them make their feelings known. I am pretty sure Trump is going to get 15-25% of the black vote, and that will be devastating for them.
As far as the election security briefing goes, don’t hold a committee hearing. Just have an informal meeting with Bill Evanina ( over coffee) with the Rep members of the committee. The members can come out in front of the cameras after their coffee meeting and talk about what they discussed. If the Dems object, screw them. It is just like the black caucus having a meeting.
I think he is just waiting until after RGB is planted. I think that is on Friday. If he did it before then , the talking point of the press all weekend would be " he couldn't even wait until she was buried ".
Invoking the Two-Hour Rule
Most of the time, the restrictions of the two-hour rule are not invoked. It is a routine, often daily, occurrence for committees to be given permission to meet during periods proscribed by the rule after agreements are announced on the Senate floor that grant them the authority to do so.5 Committee staff, when preparing for a hearing or a markup, routinely notify floor staff of the time and date of the meeting to ensure it is included in any unanimous consent agreement or joint leadership announcement.
Sometimes, however, the two-hour rule's restrictions on committee meeting are insisted upon, most commonly as a form of protest or to delay a committee's action on a specific measure or matter.6
To invoke the rule does not necessarily require any formal parliamentary action. Senators can object if a unanimous consent agreement for committees to meet is propounded on the floor. In practice, however, informal communication with leadership is likely required to invoke the rule. This is true not only because the leaders alone could grant permission for committees to meet but also because, from a practical perspective, it would be difficult for Senators to predict when any unanimous consent agreement might be propounded so that they could arrange to be present to object.
It was the long-standing practice of the Senate that, after receiving the requests from committees and clearing them with the minority leader, the majority leader (or a designee) would state on the floor
I have [number] unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask consent that these requests be agreed to and these requests be printed in the Record.
If no Senator objected, the Congressional Record would print, as if they were spoken on the floor, a series of unanimous consent requests for each committee to meet at stated times, each request being ordered "without objection."
Perhaps partly due to this practice, it was widely understood in the Senate that unanimous consent was necessary to permit committees to meet after the Senate was in session for two hours or past 2:00 p.m.7 If leaders usually honored any request to prevent committees from meeting, then that practice would also leave the impression that unanimous consent was required.
Currently, permission for Senate committees to sit during times prohibited by the two-hour rule is being granted almost exclusively by joint leadership agreement instead of by unanimous consent, a change from prior practice.8 A Senator on the floor now typically states
I have [number] requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders.
The presiding officer responds, "duly noted" to the Senator; no opportunity is afforded for a Senator to object, because unanimous consent is not requested. The list of committees authorized to meet is then printed in the Congressional Record following the statement made on the floor. Joint leadership permission has been used over 130 times since November 30, 2016, to authorize one or more Senate committees to meet during restricted hours and now appears to be the preferred way to provide a waiver of the rule.9 The change in practice might be in response to an apparent increase in invoking the rule, discussed in the final section of this report.
That would look a little silly and defeat the purpose of having a set of rules.
Instead, be smart and use it against them.
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