Reid to Keep Senate in Session to Prevent Recess Appointments

Roll Call ^ | 16 Nov 07 | Erin P. Billings

[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.

[SkyPilot]

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

No media bias there.

[My Favorite Headache]

This should make a lot of families happy.

[seanmerc]

Possible breaking news item?

[JSDude1]

What’s he gonna do (force) Senators to be there: I’d say screw you Harry Reid and go home anyway!!

[Badeye]

LMAO!

Gee, I thought the President was a ‘lame duck’ harry....

[Argus]

Don’t the senators actually have to be in the chamber to be “in session” or is this another smoke-and-mirrors parliamentary maneuver like the “virtual filibuster”?

[pillut48]

Unsavory??

Reid should know, he’s an expert in ‘unsavory’ behavior!

This is going to go over like a lead balloon in the Senate! Will be interesting to see how many senators blow a raspberry in Dingy Harry’s direction and leave anyway! :-)

[subterfuge]

Yes! What if the President wanted to make a “savory” recess appointment?

[I see my hands]

There has to be a line somewhere but they won't see it until they see evidence it's been crossed.

[Norman Bates]

What a baby.

[txhurl]

What does ‘in session’ mean? 60?

[subterfuge]

This is going to go over like a lead balloon in the Senate!

I think they should make the Junior Senator from New York hang around the chambers.

[Non-Sequitur]

Don’t the senators actually have to be in the chamber to be “in session” or is this another smoke-and-mirrors parliamentary maneuver like the “virtual filibuster”?

Smoke and mirrors.

[Miss Didi]

Well, you know Mrs. Clinton is going to be really mad...I’ll bet she’s just dying to get home to her kitchen.

[Bernard Marx]

What’s he gonna do (force) Senators to be there: I’d say screw you Harry Reid and go home anyway!!

They will, of course. And Harry's only Nancy's sock-puppet; she calls all the shots.

[Political Junkie Too]

How is he going to do this, with endless quorum calls?

-PJ

[Allegra]

[pogo101]

Bush should just let Reid know that, if Reid does this, Bush is prepared to call a special session of Congress to keep them in session all the way through January 2009.

[jpl]

I’ll believe it when I see it.