Do we control the senate, or does Schumer?
He’s just being an ass.
Change the rules...
That makes it easy. No committee hearing is required. You can just take it to the floor for a final vote. Screw the Dems.
Senator Yenta has a hissy fit...
You already surrendered. You twat.
“Republican Senator Susan Collins also slammed Schumer on Tuesday, telling reporters that he “has been saying over and over again that we’re not having enough briefings on election security,” and now he was blocking meetings on election security. She also said that Rubio had asked Schumer for permission to meet, and Schumer had denied it.”
This is kidstuff compared to the avalanche of crap that’s coming down the pike for the nomination hearings.
Confirming the next justice is infinitely more important. Let Chuckie play his little game.
The Rats rammed ObamaCare down our throats on Christmas Eve without a single Republican vote.
Now it’s our turn MoFo’s.
With RGB gone, this is the next turd that requires flushing...
Thanatos is getting sloppy...
Isn’t McConnell the majority leader? He needs to tell Schumer to stuff it.
l8r
Gee, I sure wish I didn’t have to schedule any meetings after 2:00.
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I figured we could just have a mail-in vote on the confirmation.
McConnell should change the rules. WWHRD?
Under the rule, committees can only meet outside its time constraints if the Senate grants unanimous consent for them to meet, the majority and minority leaders agree to permit the meeting, or if the Senate adopts a privileged motion to allow the meeting. If a meeting takes place without a committee obtaining permission, any action that it takes is considered “null, void, and of no effect.”
But committees are not without options. Once it’s invoked, a committee may reschedule its meeting to take place either before or after the Senate is in session, “early in the morning before the Senate has convened or after it has adjourned,” according to the Congressional Research Service. Another possibility is that the Senate may go into recess, so the committee to meet during the hours that would otherwise be restricted by the rule.
For now, the Senate Homeland Security Committee will not be holding its hearing with Wolf, and the Senate Intelligence Committee will not receive its scheduled briefing from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on election security. A hearing by the Judiciary Committee slated for Wednesday has already been postponed.
The election security briefing was to take place Tuesday afternoon. In a tweet on Tuesday, Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio said that Schumer had a “temper tantrum” over the Supreme Court and had blocked a briefing with Bill Evanina, the official leading the nation’s election security efforts.
Just send the confirmation vote to the floor. That was easy.