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Reid sets 2-part Senate lame-duck session that will start on Nov. 15
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| 08/04/10
| By J. Taylor Rushing -
Posted on 08/07/2010 12:24:59 PM PDT by Maelstorm
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Now we have to ask can we count on Rhinos plus two special election Rhinos Castle and Kirk to stop Reid? We need to take this seriously. Right now we should get commitments to all GOP that they will vote as a block to stop the lame duck session.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:25:02 PM PDT
by
Maelstorm
To: Maelstorm
Republicans should stay home.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:27:10 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: Man50D
Stay home? And thus allow the demofools free rain. Oh ya real smart!
To: Maelstorm
Be scared....very scared.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:31:58 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Maelstorm
Don’t go looking to McConnell for any sort of *leadership* in the Senate. The man is a walking jellyfish.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:32:45 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
To: Maelstorm
The way to handle this is to have the "newbies" ALSO SHOW UP just a bit ahead of time and physically take over the House and the Senate.
They have only a short period of time they need to do that before we'll be into the next term and then they can legally organize and put the Democrats on trial for their lives.
Well, anyway, just my 2 cents worth.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:35:00 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Kurmudgeon
Stay home? And thus allow the demofools free rain. Oh ya real smart!
The RATs have the majority in both chambers and can pass any legislation without the OP(formerly the GOP) but have refrained from doing so in the past because they want the OP to vote with them to make it appear any legislation is bipartisan. The OP staying home will make passing any of the RATs legislation solely on them.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:37:30 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: Maelstorm
Is this when they cram in more of their crap spending our money on endangered rats in a field and ACORN SLUSH FUNDS ?
To: Maelstorm
There are at least two seats where, if the Republicans win, they can immediately be seated and the appointed members go home. Those members are Burris from Illinois and the new appointee from WVA. That would help until the new Congress is sworn in in January.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:48:57 PM PDT
by
cgchief
To: Maelstorm
Lets see. A defeated congress could pass an amnesty bill, another “stimulus “ and God knows what else ..... lame duck sessions should not be allowed except in the case of a national emergency
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:51:21 PM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: Maelstorm
Several new senators will take their place in the senate immediately following the November elections.
They will not wait until the new congress of 2011, as they are filling temporary appointments, etc.
I don’t have the data as to how many of these there are or their R/D classification close at hand.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:51:22 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(If November does not turn out well, then beware of December.)
To: Maelstorm
All Democrat legislation in the last 2 years has to be repealed, 2000 pages of wipe each, go ahead Harry, at least it’s recyclable...
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:56:01 PM PDT
by
Son House
(No Scammers or Spammers CASH ONLY SALE! No coupons, IOU's, Foodstamps, Checks, etc THIS IS CASH ONLY)
To: Kurmudgeon
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:56:28 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Why is it that useful idiots remain idiots long after they've exhausted their usefulness?)
To: Maelstorm
Watch for cap and trade to be passed during this time.
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posted on
08/07/2010 12:57:05 PM PDT
by
politicket
(1 1/2 million attended Obama's coronation - only 14 missed work!)
To: RnMomof7
A defeated congress could pass an amnesty bill
That's going to happen before the election, the legislation that is currently sailing through Congress, or passing with a couple of RINO votes, is a dry run to test the limits
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posted on
08/07/2010 1:04:50 PM PDT
by
Son House
(No Scammers or Spammers CASH ONLY SALE! No coupons, IOU's, Foodstamps, Checks, etc THIS IS CASH ONLY)
To: Maelstorm
Get ready for cap & trade, immigration reform, and the “public option,” as well as “Son of Stimulus.”
I would not even be surprised to see gun control in there somewhere.
To: Maelstorm
Wel easy it will be in session til Christmas Eve and we will get another present just as good as Healthscam.
To: Brilliant
Get ready for cap & trade, immigration reform, and the public option, as well as Son of Stimulus.
AND card check - these people owe the unions big time into perpetuity.
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posted on
08/07/2010 1:28:07 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: Maelstorm
They're going to make gay marriage and abortion mandatory, approve funding for a 400 foot statue of Mohammad to be erected in the middle of Arlington National Cemetery, and declare Obama the Eternal King of the People's Republic of Amerika.
Oh, and call anyone who objects a racist.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
08/07/2010 1:38:00 PM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: Maelstorm
plus two special election RhinosMost senators elected in special elections or appointed are out of office immediately and replaced by winners in the general election.
They don't have to wait 'til January.
Here's what it said in the National Review:
Senate Democrats who think they can use a lame-duck session to force the country into a final, decisive lurch to the left may be in for a big surprise: newly elected senators ready to take their seats and derail major policy changes before the new Congress convenes.
There are now six unelected members of the U.S. Senate; they represent Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York, and West Virginia.
The rules governing the seating of senators elected to replace appointed senators are left to the states in the 17th amendment. New Yorks law specifies the date the new senator takes office as January 3, so Kirsten Gillibrand will still be a senator in a potential lame-duck session, regardless of the outcome of her election bid.
The other five states, however, all have laws that indicate the election winners may be seated immediately following their election in time for the lame-duck session.
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posted on
08/07/2010 2:40:17 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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