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.
K just scroll past the "argument" posts :)
Would someone please tell me what the real story is when we hear Dems say that Pubbies "filibustered" some of Clinton's nominees and now it is "payback" time. Thanks.
I don't think he's a RINO strictly, certainly.
Would have liked to see more overt umph sooner but I agree he had a hard time and had to take his time to get his ducks in a row. This is a complicated tricky mess. Has to be won the first time around.
I do think he's sometimes too soft on globalist issues.
I'm a little wary on which side of globalism he's truly on.
K=I incase that's not obvious.
At home, I can sit and see TV with the closed captioning, while posting on FR, while listening to Rush and/or listening to something on C-span 3 on the computer---
Ahh---much better, you are right, I usually always have on closed captioning, except when Frist or Cornyn or some of the other REP senators are speaking..
Sen. Bunning seems to be doing just fine! Sounds very clear and logical to me.
I didn't say that he was previously against the nuclear option, though I have no doubt that he would do anything possible to avoid it. Majority leaders such as Lyndon Johnson and Robert Byrd would not have been so reluctant. The pressure caused all these "attempts of comity" to collapse and force his hand to bring us to this precipice. In the last Congress, we had the useless counter-filibuster, which was nothing of the kind. How about making the democrats talk for hours and hours if they want to filibuster. No, that wouldn't be conciliatory. He's done nothing but wait, and meet, and talk, and meet, and wait, and talk. Now he has finally acted because there's nothing left to do. Well, I would prefer someone whose FIRST instinct is to act.
Good points well made.
It's possible. The longer the GOP stays on the floor, the longer the base is focused on the actions of these "RINO's". When they cut off early Friday the thread stopped shy of 2000. Prior to taking the vote the base cannot sleep. We must raise the level in the next 24 hours against those that would seek to undermine presidential authority under the Constitution.
Frist is no RINO. He has an ACU rating of 92 in 2004 and a lifetime rating of 89. Frist is a conservative.
In that phrase, I mean that they realize they're getting no traction in their circumstances and public opinion is turning against them in light of the only coverage available.
Great.
THX.
Or will they use the angle that they're only allowing these judges through in order to keep the filibuster tradition alive and if they didn't the nasty Republicans will blow up the Senate (making us the bad guys)?
They can make hay on either path. And they have shown a willingness to obstruct as much as politics permits.
Certainly a major reason to be a FREEPER! LEARNING!
I have not been the biggest fan of Senator Frist, but right now he is being strong and he's holding firm, so for now he deserves support. Someone is just trying to get us to blast him now, so maybe they can carry it back to some other forum?
"I heard this weekend on a thread from a Republican fence sitter that he was hoping for a compromise but would vote for the "Constitutional Option" if the wording "extraordinary circumstances" wasn't taken out of the compromise."
"Extroadinary Circumstances" was a negotiating throwaway by the Dems. They want to trade that term for a Justice. Not going to happen.
Exactly.
Actually, wood pulp for paper has been essentially a renewable resource for quite a long time in the USA.
Clear, logical and startlingly candid. He just seemed at the start to have some physical difficulty, very slight, with some words.
LONG LIVE MULTI-TASKING! LOL.
Goodness, I'd have a lot less lives without multi-tasking!
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