Posted on 05/23/2005 8:14:11 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
Senate Debate on Nominations Today the Senate resumes debate on the nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The Senate will conduct its first roll call vote of the week at 5:30pm. Follow the C-SPAN networks & C-SPAN Radio for the debate on Senate rules & judicial nominations. MON., 11:30AM ET, C-SPAN2
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ORDERS FOR MONDAY, MAY 23, 2005 -- (Senate - May 20, 2005)
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Mr. CORNYN. I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand in adjournment until 11:30 a.m. on Monday, May 23. I further ask that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved, and that the Senate then return to executive session and resume consideration of the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, provided that the time from 12 noon until 1 p.m. be under the control of the majority leader or his designee and, at 1 p.m., the Democratic leader or his designee be recognized; provided that floor time then rotate between the two leaders or their designees every 60 minutes until 4 p.m., at which time the majority leader or his designee be recognized until 4:45 p.m., to be followed by the Democrat leader or his designee from 4:45 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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PROGRAM -- (Senate - May 20, 2005)
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Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, on Monday, the Senate will resume consideration of the nomination of Priscilla Owen to serve as a circuit judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Monday will be the fourth consecutive day the Senate considers the Owen nomination.
Over the past 3 days, a number of Members, on both sides of the aisle, have come to the floor to speak on the nomination. We have conducted over 25 hours of debate, and we will continue on Monday. Moments ago, we filed a cloture motion on the nomination, and that will ripen on Tuesday of next week.
On behalf of the majority leader, I remind my colleagues the leader has announced our next rollcall vote will occur Monday afternoon at 5:30. That vote will be on a motion to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to request Senators' attendance. Senator Frist will have more to say about next week's session on Monday.
They have to pick out their mattress..
LOL!! You're probably not far from the truth. In the middle of the day, "volunteers" in typical working group age show up to protest??
Big lib confab at the bottom of the screen on CSPAN2
This is "taking attendance on the record" - that's all it is. A "live quorum call."
Formally known as executing a "Motion to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to request Senators' attendance"
Very interesting data. My first thought is that the percentage of Clinton appointees looks unusually high, but I wonder how much of that is simply due to the retirement of judges who were appointed during prior administrations (Bush, Reagan) plus the fact that W Bush is still early in his second term. In other words, it might make sense that Clinton would have the most judicial appointees since Clinton's was the most recent two-term presidency. Five or six years from now Bush might have the highest number of appointees thanks to his having had the rest of his term to make appointments, plus the retirement of some of the Clinton appointees.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Diane sure do look real happy in that pic..
Thanks. They just went through a roll call twice - guess this one is more serious. :)
Yes..but he loses points for the "hitler" reference..his whole speech got lost as a result..
My bad Mr. Allen is suppose to vote no! LOL, this is what happens when one steps away!
I wonder: Will there be pillow talk in the Thurmond Room tonight? haha
They call the ones that were absent the first time around, repeat as needed.
Frist looks to be confabbing .. and getting primed .. GO BILL ... HANG TOUGH!!
The same way Scalia sailed through 98-0.
Hellary worked for
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When Black Panther leader Bobby Seale was on trial in New Haven for murdering a fellow Panther, Hillary and her friends were in the courtroom every day where she assisted his far-left lawyer, Charles Garry. Through Garry, Hillary met Communist Party activists Jessica Mitford and her husband, Robert Truehaft, for many years the Communist Party USA's attorney. In the summer of 1971, Hillary interned at Truehaft's Berkeley law office. Truehaft, by the way, was once described by the House Committee on Un-America Activities as one of the most "dangerously subversive" attorneys in the country.
But he was not calling the Dempcrats Hitler, not that it matters it was a great speech, but that is all the MSM heard, HITLER! Agggggggh!
xshub rather crudely made mention of them having to urinate in jars,but i guess it won't come to that.. ; )
Yep but only because the MSM skewed what he was saying.
Yes, at very first I thought the number of Carter appointments was extremely low, but then I realized that many of those are probably gone by now. So all the numbers made more sense to me after that, seem reasonable with the facts.
Yep but only because the MSM skewed what he was saying.
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