LIVE Senate Filibuster Thread ~ Day 4

C-span ^ | 5-23-05 | US Senate

[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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Entertaining blather continues.....intertwined with some good tutorials....

[OESY]

Mystery of Black Support for Democrats Deepens, January 25, 2005

It's a given in modern American politics that without the monopoly on the black vote they so insultingly take for granted, Democrats would stand no chance of getting elected. What has not been given is a rational explanation for why blacks vote for a party that holds them in such low esteem.

The Democratic Party's acceptance of lowlife like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as representative of the black community is cynical at best. But the wrath directed at any black public figure who does not toe the party line is absolutely chilling.

Everyone remembers the "high tech lynching" they put Clarence Thomas through. Now they're subjecting Condoleezza Rice — who no reasonable person could deny is supremely qualified to be the next Secretary of State — to similar treatment in her confirmation hearings.

As if to pour a little extra salt in her wounds, it is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who is spearheading the effort to drag out her inevitable confirmation so as to subject her to as much denigration as the Democrats can manage.

As reported by NewsMax and remarked on by Michelle Malkin and The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Senator Robert Byrd has announced "that he would not allow the Senate to approve Ms. Rice without a few days of consideration of her lengthy testimony, and at least a token debate on the floor."

Democrat Byrd left the Klan in 1943, but continued his association with the group long afterward, and was still publicly calling people "niggers" as recently as 2001. In 1964 Byrd demonstrated his devotion to racial harmony by filibustering the Civil Rights Act for 14 straight hours.

NewsMax quotes the honorable Democrat from West Virginia:

"I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds."

[BillyBoy]

"now mah wife of 67 years, she asked me last night now on God's green earth can President Einsenhower seek to pack the courts with unqualfied negro peoples? Ah tell you in all mah time in the Senate I have never seen such an overt attempt to deprive the Senators of their will to elect an all-white judiciary. I find this tragic. In mah role as consitutional expert, I would like to recite for this body the ruiling of 1806 in which the Senate struct down a negro appointment as special advisior to Senator Aaron Burr. Now Aaron Burr was a good friend of mine. Always enjoyed mah wife's recipe for Kentucky borborn..."

[Fudd Fan]

Ohhh, the humanity!

[ElPatriota]

This guy could be writting for SNL or any other comedy show. How come the Night talk shows haven't zeroed on this guy? - He IS F-U-N-N-Y :))

[Checkers]

AA-RUNNN-BURRRRGGGHHHHH

[kjam22]

Yeah... Hillary is laughing her you know what off right now. She can laugh a whole lot and still have some to laugh off you know....

[Mo1]

FOFL!!!

[Chuck54]

If "Turnip" Byrd asks for more time Mr. President, please give him all the time he wants.

[easonc52]

A turnip truck?

I may have to mute him, he's getting Byrd Droppings all over my data queries.

[Fudd Fan]

Wow, that was fast.. you are good!

[southernnorthcarolina]

I'm 10-15 minutes late with this observation, because I was away from my computer, but did anyone notice what Sheets said when he was lamenting "sensory overload"? He listed various means of communication including telephones, email, faxes, and -- get this -- BLACKBIRDS. Obviously he meant "Blackberries." But then again, maybe it was intentional. Byrd droppings, you know.

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Now. "Any cabbagehead who fell off a turnip truck"? Hello? Truly, Byrd has vegged out.

[defconw]

Are you seriously thinking that Sheets has a point? This man can go on for days without ever making a point!

[Not A Snowbird]

He's making me dizzy. Could we at least move up to the last half century?

[clintonh8r]

"I rise today" while I still can....

[tiredoflaundry]

Hee hee

[Checkers]

MMMMMM.....SLAAAAAAWWWW...MMMMMRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH....

[Fudd Fan]

The worm turned!

[hobbes1]

That would be the way to go.

Brilliant.

[kjam22]

Problem solved sheets... vote to confirm... nothing to solving this problem.