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DeMint promises to delay health bill, force Christmas Eve vote
The Hill ^
| 12/17/2009
| Alexander Bolton
Posted on 12/17/2009 12:34:55 PM PST by Sofia
Sen. Jim DeMint said Thursday he is prepared to use every procedural tool to delay a vote on the Democratic healthcare legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is planning to schedule votes around the clock over the next week to meet a deadline of passing the bill by Christmas. Without the cooperation of Republicans, the marathon schedule would end with a vote on Christmas Eve.
Reid hopes that Republicans will waive some of the procedural formalities so senators are not forced to spend the evening before Christmas milling about the Senate floor.
But Sen. DeMint (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Republican Steering Committee and a leader of the conservative opposition, told The Hill he will not yield back any time.
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TOPICS: Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: demint; jimdemint
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:34:55 PM PST
by
Sofia
To: onyx
Jim Demint is stepping on up.
To: Sofia
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:36:30 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
To: Sofia
The Democrats look... deeply saddened.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:37:13 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Sofia
I can’t stand these oligarchs acting noble about working on Christmas Eve when we have 100,000 troops over in the middle east and swa facing down terrorists this Christmas Eve....some for the 3rd tour or more.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:39:23 PM PST
by
silverleaf
(More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
To: Sofia; rabscuttle385
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:39:45 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
To: andy58-in-nh
But the dick-weed has his head tilted back as usual.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:41:14 PM PST
by
boomop1
To: Sofia
Awesome news. This guy is just sooooo good.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:41:35 PM PST
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: hennie pennie
Go Jim!
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:41:39 PM PST
by
BARLF
To: silverleaf
Anybody that can stop these morons from robbing us all blind, especially before Christmas is O.K. with me.
To: Sofia
If the GOP can stop it by filibustering from now until November 2010 without going home, that's what they need to do.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:43:33 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Sofia
Every Republican should go their senator, point to Jim, and say, “Do it like that!”
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:46:16 PM PST
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Claire McCaskill was grousing about having to miss holiday gatherings with her family here at the Lake because her job was going to interfere. Weep for me, Claire.
To: boomop1
Obama always appears smug, no matter what is going on is the background.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:49:08 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Sofia
I spoke to the Senator’s office this morning and they assured me he would not back down under any circumstances.
I called my Senators Isakson and Chambliss and told them to get on board.
As Sonny Corleone said in “The Godfather”, “It’s time to go to the mattresses”.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:54:40 PM PST
by
Yankee
(Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
To: Sofia
DeMint was huge on Honduras and now he’s stepping up on this. If only we had 99 others like him.
To: andy58-in-nh
Great photoshop! Who is the player to the left of Obama? Dickie Turbin?
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:56:22 PM PST
by
CedarDave
(FOX news:"Fair and balanced (no matter what the White House says) . We report because others won't.")
To: andy58-in-nh
Baucus looks like the victim of a lousy embalming job.
Reid and Dodd look like they’ve just taken another look at their latest polls.
Obama looks like he’s trying to figure out which one of the other three farted.
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:57:56 PM PST
by
Yankee
(Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
To: hennie pennie; SoCalPol; DJ MacWoW; ~Kim4VRWC's~; SE Mom; STARWISE
Reid is the ultimate SOB.
DeMint and the Republicans will be heroes if they stand up to Reid.
This monstrosity must be defeated.
Rebeliion is brewing.
It’s Christmas, yet Reid and the democrats think ramming this through for Obama is MORE important and NOBODY has read it!
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posted on
12/17/2009 12:59:57 PM PST
by
onyx
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Claire is right down there with Sheila Jackson-Lee in the brains department.
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posted on
12/17/2009 1:02:38 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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