LIVE THREAD: SENATE FILIBUSTER!! Call Capitol Swtchbrd 1-800-648-3516 to Protest Dem Obstructionism

www.freerepublic.com | November 12, 2003

[Howlin]

FILIBUSTER BEGINS AT 6:00 P.M. EST!!!!

[StriperSniper]

We know that.

[Howlin]

Evidently you and I don't have it because we can't name it.

[Mo1]

The 'sign' that was complained about in the begining was "I'm going to go watch The Bachelor"

Who put that sign up??

[Not A Snowbird]

Who are neanderthals and turkeys? Us, or the republicans, or the judges? How can you be both a neanderthal and a turkey? Isn't it one or the other? Sorry... sleep deprived... bad head cold.

[jackbill]

Dung Heap Harken

[Howlin]

Now a woman from the National Womens Law Center!

[Stop Legal Plunder]

Oh, here is Boxer with her "mainstream" list!

I think the photo in this link is what the Dems mean by "mainstream".

(BTW, Howlin, would you please post the pic in the thread?)

[StriperSniper]

Cantwell is AGAINST Children Rights LIFE

[Mo1]

Trashing Janice Rogers Brown!

And stating that Female Black Conseratives NEED NOT APPLY

[Howlin]

That is the PERFECT picture to depict what they want for this country!

[Howlin]

You know, this is being driven by THOSE womens' groups; and as a woman, I can say this: THEY DO NOT REPRESENT REAL WOMEN!

[Cboldt]

I haven't done any more than a quick google of "recess appointment paid" and got a cite to a Federal law relating to compensation for recess appointees. I don't know the current status of the law, etc. -- but 5 USC Sec 5503 is the place to look ...

REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES UNDER 5 USC § 5503(a) <-- Link

5 U.S.C. § 5503(a) (1994) would bar reimbursement for these expenses in the event that the President reappointed, during another congressional recess, the eight individuals whose commissions expired at the end of the first session of the 105th Congress.

In pertinent part, § 5503(a) provides: "Payment for services may not be made from the Treasury of the United States to an individual appointed during a recess of the Senate to fill a vacancy in an existing office, if the vacancy existed while the Senate was in session and was by law required to be filled by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, until the appointee has been confirmed by the Senate." This prohibition does not apply "if, at the end of the session, a nomination for the office, other than the nomination of an individual appointed during the preceding recess of the Senate, was pending before the Senate for its advice and consent." Id. § 5503(a)(2). Section 5503(a) has been interpreted as prohibiting "[p]ayment for services" to individuals receiving successive recess appointments.

[Mo1]

Now a woman from the National Womens Law Center!

Women AGAINST Women

[StriperSniper]

He said it three times and it went in one ear and out the other. :(
(Still not enough coffee to make it stick ;-)

[Howlin]

He was saying that Bush should "free the turkeys" on Thanksgiving Day. I guess he meant the judges.

Disgusting!

[Marathoner]

Frist should tell the Abortocrats that the debate will continue until an up or down vote is taken.

By GOD, I couldn't agree more. I've been pleading with Frist & company to make them do a good old fashioned filibuster, where everything else stops and you keep going until someone blinks.

Of course, on second thought, the Rats do have the advantage in that they have the King of filibusters, KKK Byrd, who can talk about his ole dog Billie for hours on end.

[Howlin]

You got it!

Now Kate Michelman from NARAL!

[syriacus]

Santorum's giving a great speech.

[linn37]

I'm ok with recess appointments,Clinton did it and there was'nt much fuss.

[Mo1]

You know, this is being driven by THOSE womens' groups; and as a woman, I can say this: THEY DO NOT REPRESENT REAL WOMEN!

They think that Conservative Women NEED NOT APPLY

They have set Women's Right back 40 years

It's a SAD Day in America for All women