Senate Coverage -- (February '06)

Thomas ^ | 2-1-06 | US Congress

[Txsleuth]

ME...too...

I love it when there are "fights" ...such that they are on the Senate floor...


BTW...fyi, on c-span 1...they are reshowing todays INTELLIGENCE HEARINGS...where Old Rocky and Levin get to be idiots...

[Mo1]

Also .. the replay of the Senate intell committee with Porter Goss is on Cspan1 now

[Laverne]

I'm not sure what is going now; Dodd is back up again yelling about his amendment. Grassley raises a budget point of order...here we go again.

[Mo1]

Thought I'd post this over here about the Senate Intel Committee hearing today

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1570296/posts?page=146#146

To: Mo1; Howlin
Watching. I'm logging off for a bit. Wait till you see Feinstein ask if any Al Queda in the U.S. were secretly killed. They looked at here like WTF!



146 posted on 02/02/2006 8:48:15 PM EST by hipaatwo

[hipaatwo]

I logged back on, wait till you see what article I'm about to post in news. I'll ping you.

[Mo1]

Then they are going to have a 10 debate soon and then a vote on the passage of the Patriot Act Extension

Will be in session tomorrow but their will be no votes

Reid up object to something .. I didn't catch it

[Txsleuth]

Reid was wanting a clarification of the schedule..I think...

I heard Frist mention Coretta Scott King's funeral...

[Txsleuth]

Okay...friends...I hate to ASSume that Frist got bullied again...BUT,

Just a little while ago...he was saying that even though there would be no roll call votes (why?) tomorrow...the Senate would be in session to start debate on the Asbesto legislation...

I heard Reid get up with an inquiry...and, as posted above, the Coretta Scott King funeral was mentioned...

SOOOOOOOO..when Frist shut down the Senate a few minutes ago...and mentioned the next session would start on MONDAY afternoon....I figured that the funeral must be tomorrow, right????

Oh, no...because Frist then went on to say that the cloture vote on the Asbestos legislation would be at 6:00 PM on Tuesday..."late in the day, to accomodate those going to the Coretta Scott King funeral"!!!!

SOOOOOOOOOOOO...they just came back from CHRISTMAS RECESS this week...they are already taking TOMORROW OFF...and half of Monday...and most of TUESDAY...

OH>..and BTW...most of today was spent in a quorum call...which could mean NOTHING was getting done..and they just let these votes happen tonight without substantitive debate...SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORK TOMORROW.

NOW...maybe, it is just me....but, I am really getting ticked at the LITTLE work that WE the citizens get to "participate" in...in our own little way, through C-span...

And, with the knee-jerk responses these guys have now days to any little thing...what will happen next to keep them from making the Patriot Act extended indefinitely???

Or...work for border control...or tax reform, or Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security reform...?????

RANT OFF

Till next week...

[Cboldt]

A bill (H.R. 4659) to amend the USA PATRIOT Act to extend the sunset of certain provisions of such Act. ...

Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, the Republican leadership of the House and the Senate has proposed a second extension of the PATRIOT Act to last another 5 weeks until March 10. ...

[Rollcall Vote No. 11 Leg.]

NAYS--1

Feingold

NOT VOTING--4

Bingaman
Domenici
Lott
Thomas

10 . USA PATRIOT ACT EXTENSION -- (Senate - February 02, 2006)

[Cboldt]

00006 02-Feb H.R. 4297 On the Motion S.Amdt. 2716 Rejected [44-53-3]

Motion to Waive CBA Clinton Amdt. No. 2716; To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

Senate Roll Call Votes

The amendment was ruled out of order in the context of the tax relief bill. Count on this or similar measure being introduced to other bills until Mary-Mary and Hillary! get a Katrina Commission.

[OXENinFLA]

LIVE THREAD: SJC hearing on the NSA surveilance program - C-span 1; 9:30 am EST

[OXENinFLA]

Next Meeting

Tuesday, Feb 7, 2006

9:45 a.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business.

Thereafter, begin consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 852, the Asbestos Claims bill.

Previous Meeting

Monday, Feb 6, 2006

The Senate convened at 2:00 p.m. and adjourned at 6:14 p.m. No roll call votes were taken.

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Asbestos .........Oh boy I bet THIS is gonna be boring....

[Cboldt]

NSA Hearings, transcript links ...

Part I
Part II Starts at 3:48 pm, at Kohl
Part III Starts at 7:26 pm, at Durbin

Those are not the complete hearings, and omit at least Specter's closing exchange with Attorney General Gonzales.

[OXENinFLA]

IRAQ POLICY

Rumsfeld and Pace Testify
Sen. John Warner (R-VA) chairs a Senate Armed Services Cmte. hearing at which both Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfled and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Peter Pace testify. The purpose is for the Committee to get one of its periodic updates on military operations in Iraq. Gens. Abizaid and Casey might also testify.
TUESDAY, C-SPAN, 9:30AM ET

[Two-Bits]

I have come to the conclusion suicide bombers are the useful idiots for the "terrorists" as the useful idiots over here are the Democrats. I say keep them talking, the Democrats does more recruiting for the Republican party then we ever could.

[Txsleuth]

bttt

[OXENinFLA]

Is the sound on Cspan2 broke?

[Txsleuth]

I am getting sound on c-span2.....

Have you gotten it yet??

BTW..Patty Obama Murry up B!tching about budget cuts...LOLOL.....and yet what do the dems TRY to gig the GOP with??? oh, yeah, deficits...hehe

[OXENinFLA]

nope, I'm using Realplayer and there's still no sound.

C-span 1 works OK but C2 is down/

[Txsleuth]

I've got Windows...and it is fine...but, I think I may change to 1...this is boring...