LIVE SENATE THREAD: C-Span 2 9:30am EST "The Confirmation vote for Priscilla Owen"

C-Span 2

[ken5050]

Good morning all. Senate convenes at 9:30 am this morning, to vote on the nomination of Priscilla Owen. I've started the thread early, as I have to leave for a few hours, but also to give us a place to start commenting early on the events of yesterday....

[maica]

You guys are posting the votes before I'm hearing them announced on CSpan. It's creepy.

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It is fun to watch a ball game or delay and hear the call before you see the shot or pitch.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

McMainiac Aye

[Cboldt]

• When a nomination is confirmed or rejected, any Senator voting in the majority may move for a reconsideration on the same day on which the vote was taken, or on either of the next two days of actual executive session of the Senate; but if a notification of the confirmation or rejection of a nomination shall have been sent to the President before the expiration of the time within which a motion to reconsider may be made, the motion to reconsider shall be accompanied by a motion to request the President to return such notification to the Senate. Any motion to reconsider the vote on a nomination may be laid on the table without prejudice to the nomination, and shall be a final disposition of such motion.

• Nominations confirmed or rejected by the Senate shall not be returned by the Secretary to the President until the expiration of the time limited for making a motion to reconsider the same, or while a motion to reconsider is pending unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.

http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule31.htm

[RobFromGa]

The 14 didn't say how they'd vote on confirmation just YES on cloture.

[ConservativeMan55]

I wondered...

[cookcounty]

"Frist couldn't be more clear. He doesn't want to use the Constitutional Nuclear Byrd option. "

Sometimes I think the Republicans are just plain dumb about choice of language. They should have been referring to this as the "Early Byrd Option" referring to Robert Byrd (yes that Robert Sheets Byrd) in his vote in 1976 to change the filibuster rule for cloture (the time-honored tradition of 200 years) from 67 to 60. The rule change was made by majority vote (56 "ayes").

At the time, Byrd had no discernable convictions about the immutability of Senate rules and voiced no objection to the rule change being made by majority vote. I wonder exactly when it was that he had his epiphany.

[Not A Snowbird]

That does have a delay to facilitate smooth transmission.

It ain't working! It keeps cutting out.

I should mute it and just listen to you folks. :-)

[AndrewC]

Lieberman, member of the 14 gang, has broken his word and voted NO?

He promised not to vote for filibuster, not to actually vote for the nominees.

[george wythe]

McCain voted "aye."

Thank God for small victories

[mhking]

McMoonbat - Aye

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Captain Queeg, Aye!

[steveegg]

That is Kohl (from WI)

Yep; that's Nobody's Senator™

[mewzilla]

Where are yoooooooo, Hillary...?

[texasbluebell]

Anyone still think this guy is GOP maeterial???

Haha! Not in a million years.

[kcvl]

Fox News...Reid says, Bolton is not part of the agreement not to filibuster.

Here we go again.

[ConservativeMan55]

Jeffords- No

Sarbanes- No

[Jrabbit]

42 yes

[AFPhys]

"Rush is talking about a new item on sale

"It's called Rug Out .."

PROOF (???) that Rush monitors FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410035/posts?page=202#202


WRONG ANSWER! Frist must keep everything as obscure as possible to keep these flakes under control. None of the Demodogs want to test this "filibuster" of judges again. They will be completely killed - and they are starting to realize that they have the rug completely torn out from under them.

[Maigrey]

Mikulski No

Jeffords No

Sarbaines No

[Zuben Elgenubi]

McKulskie NO