Posted on 05/18/2005 10:21:08 PM PDT by davidosborne
Text Credit to Ken5050: DAY-1 THREAD
Welcome, all you Freepers, to the continuing C-span soap operas about judicial nominations. "The Guiding SEARCHLIGHT, " "As the SENATE Turns, "One NOMINATION to Live" "GERIATRIC Hospital" (for all you Byrd and Lautenberg fans out there). Follow along with us, as the Dems raise the level of histrionics, bloviation, pontification, and all around bad acting to new highs, er, lows...
Frist said this morning that they were going to go until later this evening--
Tomorrow will resume debate on OWEN---will file cloture motion on Friday...will continue debate on Monday, wants all to come down and debate...
There will be a vote on Monday 5:30 procedural vote--
Cloture vote on Tuesday, no time yet---
No votes this evening or tomorrow, but continued debate!
I thought he said tomorrow! at 5:30
Baby is fine. Parents hanging in there. :) Still haven't gotten the pictures up on my webspace so I can post 'em. Might be a while as my time is pretty committed this weekend.
It sounds like Frist is sticking to the plan. I think it is going as well.
Dang, do you think he has enough votes to win on a cloture vote?
What is going on?
Is there a compromise plan? I have not heard it yet.
Go John Go
Kyl up.
Reminding never controversy on Justices recommended by members of the Senate for confirmation. The numbers cited as evidence are therefore misleading.
Justices being argued are those directly beneath Surpreme Court because they are few and influential.
Only 55% of these from the President have been confirmed. lowest percentage in modern history.
Another split between Vitter and Landrieu
5/19/2005, 4:25 p.m. CT
The Associated Press
(AP) — Louisiana's Republican U.S. senator chided his Democratic counterpart Thursday for supporting a filibuster years ago, and called on her to break with her party and vote to end filibusters against seven of President Bush's judicial nominees.
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"It strikes me as more than ironic that we are spending a billion dollars a week — a week — in Iraq to help establish the rights of the minority in that emerging democracy while we — not we, but some leaders — are tearing them down here at home," she said. "It is extremely troubling."
Asked what she thought about being named on the Senate floor, she said, "There are a lot of unwritten rules in the Senate. Of course, Sen. Vitter is new to the Senate and he's new to these rules. One which has served the Louisiana delegation very well for decades has been a restraint of personal attacks.
"I intend to hold to that because it's served our state well."
Vitter brought up an old score: Landrieu's support for the filibuster of Miguel Estrada, a nominee for the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., "after she had expressed strong support of that very nomination in her re-election campaign."
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Landrieu has said that an ad in Spanish, promising support for Estrada, was the result of miscommunication. She said that, in response to GOP spots saying she opposed the nomination, she had said she was neutral
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As for the centrist talks, "I would say that we're close. But by no means should that be taken as a sign that a compromise will be reached," Landrieu said. She estimated chances at 50-50.
"The good news is that we're continuing to talk," she said.
Has the Democratic leadership encouraged them? "The Democratic leadership is aware of these talks. I'll leave it at that."
She said filibuster rules protect minorities. "Even when the Democrats were the majority ... we never attempted to take away the rights of the minority," she said. "There were many times when there was one Republican senator on the floor, and 72 Democrats. But that one Republican senator could take to the floor and often did to make sure that voice and those views were heard."
http://tinyurl.com/cfu87
That blew up hours ago, If Fox is still pushing it they are wrong!
Isakson has been a perpetual candidate in Georgia for years, and finally won something. He was the "RINO" in this year's race.
I'm gonna check out Brit for a few minutes and see what he says about this---
Just heard a report on Fox, that the liberal party under Martin won by one vote. Seems they have RINO's in Canada too.
That's what I thought.
I thought a cloture vote, is just to limit debate? Am I wrong?
They also thought the Senate would represent the States as sovereign governments (within the limits set forth in the Constitution) and not be merely a distorted version of the popularly elected House.
The "senior senator" from florida...bill nelson
Kyl up. The only real repub from 'zona.
He's good. Start's up by dispelling donk numbers. Great!
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