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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: johnny7; Gabz; Eric Blair 2084

Dear God, I couldn’t stop laughing. Gabby, you have to see ‘dis.


161 posted on 11/17/2007 12:44:23 PM PST by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney ("To Live Outside The Law, You must Be Honest"-Robert Zimmerman song lyric)
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To: txflake; STARWISE

I keep getting this nasty mental image.


162 posted on 11/17/2007 12:56:13 PM PST by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney ("To Live Outside The Law, You must Be Honest"-Robert Zimmerman song lyric)
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To: seanmerc

Is it true that Harry said, “Since I can’t do my job the way I am supposed to, the least I can do is keep the Senate in session to prevent the President from doing his job”?


163 posted on 11/17/2007 1:12:33 PM PST by BigAlPro (It's time to flush the toilet of political corruption in Washington)
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To: seanmerc

President Bush should make his recess appointments anyway and let the courts fight it out all of next year. What does He have to lose?


164 posted on 11/17/2007 1:36:47 PM PST by Keflavik76
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
That is exactly why we should wish them a "Merry Christmas" at every opportunity.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

165 posted on 11/17/2007 2:27:00 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: seanmerc

Oh Yea! So ummmm... Harry, you gonna keep congress in session through Christmas, and Easter, and what other holidays are there before Mr. Bush is out of Office? Yea, I would call Harry a Parer Tiger, but frankly I don’t think he rates even that.


166 posted on 11/17/2007 2:48:44 PM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha (Smoke clears and Fred Thompson is President))
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To: johnny7

Does she baste it or stuff it?


167 posted on 11/17/2007 2:53:55 PM PST by Atchafalaya
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To: seanmerc

Great. Let’s see him get some work done. Bush needs to call a special session and get the tax cuts made permanent, social security privatized, and the war funded.


168 posted on 11/17/2007 3:25:43 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: Political Junkie Too

What’s dingy Harry going to do the whole month of December? Doesn’t the Senate take off about a month at Christmas time?How is he going to keep the senators in DC when they want to be home for Christmas? This again is a bunch of symbolism over substance. Harry will have to cave.


169 posted on 11/17/2007 6:03:48 PM PST by conservative blonde (Let's call the Jr. Senator from Illinois by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: seanmerc

The following explains what a “Pro Forma Session” is:

C-SPAN Congressional Glossary
Term Definition Used In
Pro Forma Session A daily meeting of the House or Senate during which no votes are held and no legislative business is conducted. The session “in form only” is held for purposes of meeting the 3-day rule in the Constitution. It requires each House to gain the permission of the other for recesses longer than 3 days. When the permission is not forthcoming, or not requested in time, the affected chamber convenes briefly with hardly anyone in attendance [the opening prayer, routine announcements, and sometimes short non-legislative speeches are conducted], and then adjourns. House & Senate


170 posted on 11/17/2007 7:13:25 PM PST by mtnwmn (mtnwmn)
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To: seanmerc

Go ahead, Dirty Harry...

Congress’ favorable numbers are now down to only ELEVEN PERCENT. Roll the dice, fool...

GO AHEAD. MAKE OUR DAY!


171 posted on 11/17/2007 7:13:56 PM PST by Humidston
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To: seanmerc
U.S. CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 11, SECTION 3,"...he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper..."

President Bush can just threaten to adjourn both houses, since the Senate and the House are in disagreement as to the time of adjournment...............thus, the ball will be in Reid's court, for then Reid would have to force BOTH houses to convene during the holiday(s)......in order to prevent recess appointments.......it would be fun to watch, indeed!

Fighting 3 wars, on three fronts (Iraq, Afghanistan and World Wide War on Terror) in my book, would certainly merit "extraordinary Occasions".........

:}

172 posted on 11/17/2007 7:32:51 PM PST by AwesomePossum
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To: seanmerc

Is it even legal for Congress to actually sit on a federal holiday?


173 posted on 11/17/2007 8:17:46 PM PST by Heartofsong83
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To: AwesomePossum
Appears to me they had an agreement.......

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That when the House adjourns on the legislative day of Thursday, November 15, 2007, or Friday, November 16, 2007,... (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)

E:LHSEENRLhc259--enr.xml [file 1 of 1]

--H.Con.Res.259--

H.Con.Res.259

Agreed to November 15, 2007

One Hundred Tenth Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,

the fourth day of January, two thousand and seven

Concurrent Resolution

Attest:

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Attest:

Secretary of the Senate.

174 posted on 11/17/2007 8:39:34 PM PST by deport (>>>--Iowa Caucuses .. 46 days and counting--<<< [ Meanwhile:-- Cue Spooky Music--])
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To: seanmerc
When will Harry reap what he sows? Like most Dems in Congress, beyond a disgusting human being. . .and truly a pathetic embarassment.

Please, bring them home to stay. . .

175 posted on 11/17/2007 10:14:02 PM PST by cricket
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To: seanmerc
Arrogance: Reid
176 posted on 11/17/2007 11:18:03 PM PST by TChris (Cartels (oil, diamonds, labor) are bad. Free-market competition is good.)
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To: seanmerc
I wonder how that works if there is no quorum?
177 posted on 11/17/2007 11:24:43 PM PST by restornu (Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by... PRESS FORWARD MITT)
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To: deport

Appears so, but by holding Pro Forma Session(s), Reid is technically, and legally demonstrating that there is no agreement.............for the purpose of Pro Forma Session is to perform an “end around” disagreements concerning recesses/adjournments...........


178 posted on 11/17/2007 11:25:34 PM PST by AwesomePossum
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To: seanmerc
So who is on call now?
179 posted on 11/17/2007 11:25:42 PM PST by restornu (Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by... PRESS FORWARD MITT)
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To: mosaicwolf

Well, with that in mind, Bush should wait until about noon on on Christmas Eve and line up to do some appointments. Of course I hope and doubt that this door to door service by the Defense Department to the Senators to get to DC is not a “round trip” booking...........scannell


180 posted on 11/18/2007 5:24:01 AM PST by scannell
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