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Reid to Keep Senate in Session to Prevent Recess Appointments
Roll Call ^ | 16 Nov 07 | Erin P. Billings

Posted on 11/16/2007 11:36:32 AM PST by seanmerc

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to keep the chamber in session over the Thanksgiving break to block President Bush from making any unsavory recess appointments while Senators are out of town.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 110th; democratparty; dingyharry; enemedia; erinbillings; erinpbillings; harryreid; loser; mortician; recessappointments; reid; sillydems; unsavory
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To: seanmerc
Hey, Harry!


141 posted on 11/16/2007 9:27:25 PM PST by Just Lori (There is nothing democrat-"ic" about democrats.)
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To: subterfuge

Ann Coulter for a Federal judgeship???


142 posted on 11/16/2007 9:39:56 PM PST by Reagan80 ("Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem." -RR; 1980 Inaugural)
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To: seanmerc

Ted Kennedy give up a meal and drinks? No way.


143 posted on 11/16/2007 10:09:06 PM PST by b4its2late (GITMO is way too nice of a place to house low life terrorists.)
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To: STARWISE

Now there’s a porker!


144 posted on 11/16/2007 10:11:33 PM PST by b4its2late (GITMO is way too nice of a place to house low life terrorists.)
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To: seanmerc

The Dems own unsavory!


145 posted on 11/16/2007 10:32:25 PM PST by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Just Lori

Ok. so.. Reid.

GOOD PICTURE!!!!

Ok. so... Reid is standing in front of Senate

“You can’t go home for vacation. Get back in your seats. I tell you. I’m gonna call security! I’ll get Nancy!!! I’ll close the gambling casinos!!!!!”

Senators :(

“You must accept my aw torrr ee taaaay”


146 posted on 11/16/2007 10:45:56 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (- Attention all planets of the solar Federation--Secret plan codeword: Banana)
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To: seanmerc

is he going to keep them there through all the breaks coming up and until after ‘08 elections?


147 posted on 11/17/2007 1:31:36 AM PST by sure_fine (• " not one to over kill the thought process " •)
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To: seanmerc

If the Senate is officially in session, there ought to be parliamentary manuevers that require the actual physical presence on the Senate floor. Republican Senators should respond throughout the period by continually demanding quorom calls.


148 posted on 11/17/2007 3:15:26 AM PST by CaptainMorgantown
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To: seanmerc

Funny thing is I read a poll recently that showed Harry Reid with a miserable 30 something approval rating in Nevada, his propects for re-election don’t look good, but of course you won’t hear this from the MSM.


149 posted on 11/17/2007 5:34:47 AM PST by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: seanmerc

How about Christmas Day?

This guy doesn’t even rise to the level of a weasel....


150 posted on 11/17/2007 5:45:05 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: STARWISE

Pork: The Congressional White Meat


151 posted on 11/17/2007 7:33:46 AM PST by reg45
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To: seanmerc

I think it’s time for another Levin Surge. They want to stay in session but not work? Isn’t that what they’ve been doing all year? How much tax payer money is going to go into keeping the buildings going, their offices open, over a National Holiday? Clerks, secretaries, telephone operators, security guards, interns, all the little people that are going to miss their holiday at home with their families because Harry Reid is terrified of George Bush? FUND THE TROOPS HARRY, YOU POS!!!


152 posted on 11/17/2007 8:51:25 AM PST by athelass (Proud Mom of a Sailor and two Marines! Rockies, thanks for a great Rocktober!)
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To: pogo101
Bush should just let Reid know that, if Reid does this, Bush is prepared to....

... be a uniter not a divider?

153 posted on 11/17/2007 9:35:16 AM PST by angkor ("There! half man, half bear, and half pig! Do you see it?!." Al Gore, South Park 11.12)
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To: JSDude1

he does not need you.

The rules should allow a rule to have members make and pass a motion to adjourn.

The Congressional rules should be no different than roberts or demeters in this regard.


154 posted on 11/17/2007 9:54:10 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: mosaicwolf
Senators just have to have a beeper and be prepared to return to the floor within 6 hours. Now obviously a scheduled airline will not make this happen. So, the Dept of Defense will have C-40/B (Boeing 737 equivalent) and crew standing by over the holidays. Aircraft will be dispatched anywhere in the country it is needed to shuttle Senators back and forth while they are on duty.

Better yet - hire a Kennedy as pilot.
155 posted on 11/17/2007 10:31:17 AM PST by Cheburashka (DUmmieland = Opus Dopium. In all senses of the word dope.)
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To: SkyPilot

>>block President Bush from making any unsavory recess appointments while Senators are out of town.


No media bias there<<

Serious media bias. But Reed is smart to do this. We’ll see if Senators object to being ask to “work” more.


156 posted on 11/17/2007 10:54:52 AM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: seanmerc

hardball the GOP never learns to play


157 posted on 11/17/2007 11:18:49 AM PST by wardaddy (This country is being destroyed by folks who could have never created it.)
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To: gondramB

Washington DC is deserted. The elected officials are long gone. Maybe we’ll have a couple weeks of important news such as airport delays instead of the barrage of rhetoric on the latest bill.


158 posted on 11/17/2007 11:22:14 AM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: Phsstpok
have a Republican make a motion that a quorum is absent every time and force a quorum call and send the troops out to compel attendance and drag their asses back.

Yes, Dick Cheney, as President Pro Tem of the Senate should do this every day. Does he celebrate Thanksgiving in Wyoming, or does he usually stay in DC at his home at the Naval Observatory?

159 posted on 11/17/2007 11:30:24 AM PST by CDB (Michael Yon is the Ernie Pyle of the War on Terror)
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To: 66-442hot
Makes a guy wonder what those rules are there for???

"They're more like guidelines, anyway."

160 posted on 11/17/2007 12:43:07 PM PST by uptoolate (This world is not my home, I'm justa passin' thru.)
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