And Mitch is doing it on Hillary’s birthday!
NO DEBATE. VOTE.
Don’t give in to them. Treat like the spoiled children that they are and don’t give them their way.
McConnell should tell Schumer that if the Democrats boycott the Judiciary Committee vote this week (the committee needs at least two minority party members to conduct business), he’ll move to shut down the 30-hour debate window on Sunday/Monday and go right to a full Senate vote at 8:00 on Monday morning.
I sure as he** hope so.
With Barrett’s confirmation
Trump can sleep well.
Damn the Dims, too.
To the Dems all I have to say is guys, you wanted scorched-earth politics, this is what you get.
What if you threw a boycott and no body cared.
They should have come up with the “sham” idea before they questioned her.
She appeared. She answered their questions. Now they want to stomp their feet and storm off like little children.
It seems clear what the “sham” is, here.
Their pay should be docked, since they won’t do their jobs.
And here Feinswine has received untold grief from the far left for some semi-favorable remark she made about Judge Amy. She wouldn’t DARE vote in favor at this point, not that she was likely to anyway.
Justice Amy. I like that.
Elections have consequences, right?
Send out US Marshalls and bring the Democrats to the Committee room, by force if necessary!
12 to 10. It is a formality at that point.
That said, awhile back in Texas there was an attempt in Harris County to increase property taxes and they did not have a quorum, the 2 Republicans did not appear. The Democrats on Commissioner's Court were trying to ram through a tax hike in violation of “the rules”.
Steve Radack and Jack Cagle, the two Republican members of the Harris County Commissioners Court, blocked the approval of the largest property tax rate increase in a generation by being absent from the court's meeting Tuesday.
...Texas law requires that at least four of the five court members be present in order to vote on a tax increase, as News 88.7 reported on Oct. 7. Since Cagle and Radack were not present when the tax increase item came up, there was no quorum and no vote.
The proposed tax increase would have raised Harris County's property tax rate to 65.26 cents per $100 assessed valuation, up from the current rate of 62.998 cents per $100 assessed valuation. This is the last year in which Harris County could raise property tax rates by such an amount. Under a new Texas law, local governments will only be able to raise property taxes by a maximum of 3.5%. Anything higher will require them to go to voters for approval.
Since there was no vote, the property tax rate will decrease to the effective tax rate of 61.17 cents per $100 assessed valuation, according to the Harris County Budget Office...
Just vote and then laugh in their faces.
Call it “the Reid Option” - just to make sure the Democrats enjoy it, fully.
There you have it. It's Graham that's circumventing the rules - not the Democrats refusing to show up for a hearing on a committee for which they are members.
This is the way it should be done. I think the pubbie are waking up to the threat to America by these communists in the dumocrat party