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Live Filibuster Thread Tuesday
CSPAN ^ | May 24, 2005 | AliVeritas

Posted on 05/24/2005 6:55:47 AM PDT by AliVeritas

FReepers be prepared for surprises today.

(Excerpt) Read more at c-span.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 109th; filibuster; ussenate
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To: johnb838

Leaky - Aye.


841 posted on 05/24/2005 9:12:55 AM PDT by mhking (That's no moon...it's a space station...)
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To: Maigrey

Rush said on the agreement Art. II Section B.

RINOs accepted Sheets agreement proposal, so Bush has to go down. No nuke option for a year and a half. But there are loopholes.


842 posted on 05/24/2005 9:12:58 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: mhking

LOL........we posted at the exact same time.


843 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:03 AM PDT by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: pbrown
This is a vote to agree to stop debating and vote on Owens. At this point I don't see any dem voting no.

Ooops WRONG Jefford jumped again to a NO.One other one whose name I didn't catch. Total no's so far = 2.

844 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:04 AM PDT by Carolinamom (US Senate: UN on the Potomac)
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Leaky AYE!


845 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:07 AM PDT by defconw ( Vote Up or Down on Janice Brown!)
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To: traderrob6

Yeah, Hayworth, sorry.


846 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:08 AM PDT by johnb838 (Liberalism = Leninism.... Liberalism = Bolshevism)
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To: NonValueAdded
We'll get more than three.

And it does tip the power in at least one and possibly two districts.

We haven't had a majority in any district for as long as I can remember.

847 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:16 AM PDT by cicero's_son
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To: Maigrey
Clinton... Aye

Shocker ...

848 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:21 AM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: pbrown

This vote is to end the filibuster on Owen.

The dems are mostly voting aye because they can read the writing on the wall, at least on this judge.


849 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:26 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: pbrown

They all basically agreed to invoke cloture on Owens. They're voting "aye" to do so.


850 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:30 AM PDT by TheBigB (These aren't the droids you're looking for...)
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To: Jim Verdolini

You have your finger on the trouble: All the 'Craps have to do is hang tough as opposing everything Bush and/or the Republicans want, and be confident they will be able to peel the one or two RINO flakes needed to frustrate us.


851 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:31 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: NCLaw441
Jeffords... No

Lugard... Aye

Levin... No

Smith... Aye

Cochran... Aye

Bingaman ... Aye

Lehey... Aye

Lieberman... Aye

852 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:32 AM PDT by Maigrey (Don't make me call the Emperor on you!)
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To: MamaLucci
Yes, it's standard.
They don't have to do it, but they can.
853 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:34 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: MamaLucci
If cloture is invoked, debate ends, and the nomination moves to a vote ...

RULE XXII
PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS

1. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received but

To adjourn.
To adjourn to a day certain, or that when the Senate adjourn it shall be to a day certain.
To take a recess.
To proceed to the consideration of executive business.
To lay on the table.
To postpone indefinitely.
To postpone to a day certain.
To commit.
To amend.

Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand arranged; and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a recess, to proceed to the consideration of executive business, to lay on the table, shall be decided without debate.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of rule II or rule IV or any other rule of the Senate, at any time a motion signed by sixteen Senators, to bring to a close the debate upon any measure, motion, other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, is presented to the Senate, the Presiding Officer, or clerk at the direction of the Presiding Officer, shall at once state the motion to the Senate, and one hour after the Senate meets on the following calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the Senate and direct that the clerk call the roll, and upon the ascertainment that a quorum is present, the Presiding Officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a yea-and-nay vote the question:

"Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn -- except on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting -- then said measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion of all other business until disposed of.

Thereafter no Senator shall be entitled to speak in all more than one hour on the measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, the amendments thereto, and motions affecting the same, and it shall be the duty of the Presiding Officer to keep the time of each Senator who speaks. Except by unanimous consent, no amendment shall be proposed after the vote to bring the debate to a close, unless it had been submitted in writing to the Journal Clerk by 1 o'clock p.m. on the day following the filing of the cloture motion if an amendment in the first degree, and unless it had been so submitted at least one hour prior to the beginning of the cloture vote if an amendment in the second degree. No dilatory motion, or dilatory amendment, or amendment not germane shall be in order. Points of order, including questions of relevancy, and appeals from the decision of the Presiding Officer, shall be decided without debate.

After no more than thirty hours of consideration of the measure, motion, or other matter on which cloture has been invoked, the Senate shall proceed, without any further debate on any question, to vote on the final disposition thereof to the exclusion of all amendments not then actually pending before the Senate at that time and to the exclusion of all motions, except a motion to table, or to reconsider and one quorum call on demand to establish the presence of a quorum (and motions required to establish a quorum) immediately before the final vote begins. The thirty hours may be increased by the adoption of a motion, decided without debate, by a three-fifths affirmative vote of the Senators duly chosen and sworn, and any such time thus agreed upon shall be equally divided between and controlled by the Majority and Minority Leaders or their designees. However, only one motion to extend time, specified above, may be made in any one calendar day.

http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule22.htm


854 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:44 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: steveegg
Sheets Byrd was a party to the cave.

What's surprising is that Hitlery voted to end cloture. Guess Reid is on his way out as Senate "Minority" Leader.

Thank you so much.

So what was yeaterday and last night all about? Blustering?

I'm listening to the vote.

855 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:48 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: johnb838

I guess I wouldn't, but would it apply to a female? Like Susan Heywood?


856 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:52 AM PDT by colorcountry (To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. ....Barry Goldwater)
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To: NonValueAdded

That's what I hear too.


857 posted on 05/24/2005 9:13:59 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: pbrown

Sheets HAS to vote yea, it was in the agreement he signed onto yesterday.


858 posted on 05/24/2005 9:14:37 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

If we get cloture we don't need the nuclear option until they refuse cloture next time.


859 posted on 05/24/2005 9:14:41 AM PDT by LisaFab
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To: Cboldt

Jabba The Drunk - Aye.


860 posted on 05/24/2005 9:14:43 AM PDT by mhking (That's no moon...it's a space station...)
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