Posted on 01/26/2006 6:51:27 AM PST by katieanna
Debate continues in the Senate today on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. At present no time has been announced for a final vote. Stop by and discuss.
No. The default in Rule XXII is 30 hours.
I think the amount of debate time can be changed at any time, but I assume that means via UC.
Frist has that UC now. He filed the cloture motion, asserted that it would be voted at 4:30 PM Monday (which is an odd time, as Rule XXII says one hour after open of business), and asked for UC that if the cloture motion passes, the vote on the nominee would be at 11:00 AM on Tuesday. There was no objection to that agreement.
http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule22.php ...
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 threefifths 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.
Good point. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this matter, one of such great importance to the fate of humanity, works out over time... :o)
He didn't NOT recommend him; he just didn't recommend him, a stance I can fully understand being on the hot seat.
He didn't have to even introduce him if he really didn't want to.
I would imagine that if Frist was to allow the vote to carry over PAST Tuesday nights SOTU address..
He just might get a call from AT LEAST Rove..and probably Bush himself...and at that point, Frist should have his resignation as ML in hand....
Did the tally just move....I turned away and could have sworn it was at 54....now 55
I am also sick of him. Why is he so nice to that bas-ard REID?!
That was part of the discussion and how scary that is for our future.
Okay, I understand. We'll know soon enough.
Thanks, I don't know how I got that 100 hours stuck in my head. Looks for a win for our side, finally. I imagine Frist will try for another UC to move to the vote at least once more prior to the cloture vote. I wonder if the moonbats who want to have the cloture so badly (to 'flush' out the traitors, in their view) will convince someone to object to that final UC, if Reid is inclined to let it pass?
Well, now, it sounds like Johnnie boy jumped the whole school of sharks! Haaaaaaaaa!
Thanks....why don't they put Sarbanes in the NO column already
Yeah, Collins is now a yes. Soon it'll be 55-32, as Sarbanes is about to put himself into the "nay" category.
Durbin himself says there are 59 votes for Alito.
He will be confirmed.
If not, I gnaw off my arm.
You know...when Harry Reid came out with Frist...he commented that they had cleared up some other business...
one was the LIEHP legislation...to get help to people in the north with their energy bills this winter...and Collins and Snowe were mentioned...
I wonder if they were holding out...until they got agreements from the GOP that their legislation was taken care of TODAY!!!
Collins Y
?
The Snowe show a no-show.
This agreement is to override the normal operation. Having filed cloture, they could vote on cloture on Saturday, if the senate was in session. Nobody wants to be there.
But after cloture, there is still 30 hours of debate (I think) by rule, unless UC is reached to change it.
So in exchange for a UC on a tuesday morning vote, Frist was able to schedule cloture on late monday afternoon, when the senators can get back, instead of forcing them to end their world-wide weekend getaways to come vote on Saturday.
Reid agreed I believe because he doesn't have the votes. Otherwise he would have forced Frist to either make them come back, or to wait until wednesday for the final vote after cloture was done, to push past the SOTU.
I guess the Dems hold out a slim hope that the special interests can drum up support for a filibuster over the weekend. If not, they all vote to end debate on monday, they look "conciliatory", and then everybody votes their conscience on tuesday.
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