Posted on 02/14/2014 4:49:37 AM PST by jimbo123
When the Senate held a drama-filled procedural vote on raising the debt limit this week, there was one element missing from what should have been a typical roll call vote — the calling of the ayes and nays.
In nearly every roll call vote held on the Senate floor, the clerk reads who voted in the negative and in the affirmative before the final vote is called.
But on Wednesday, with the Senate engaged in arm twisting, senators switching votes, and the full faith and credit of the United States on the line, the Senate floor broke from normal procedure and went silent. The clerk never publicly announced how each senator voted, leaving viewers watching on CSPAN and observers not in the room in the dark about just how close the debt limit vote was.
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, explained in a statement today that Senate Republicans made the request for the votes not to be called in order to convince their colleagues to switch their votes to advance the bill.
“After the vote began, it was quickly clear that Republican leaders were struggling to deliver enough votes to clear the 60-vote hurdle upon which they had insisted instead of a simple majority, and a potentially catastrophic default suddenly seemed possible,” Jentleson said. “At Senate Republicans’ request, the clerk did not call the names during the vote to make it easier for Republican leaders to convince their members to switch their votes.”
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I am really praying that the constituent discontent translates to a tsunami of humiliating defeat for him.
I want him totally crushed and soundly defeated, like he’s crushed all our dreams of Constitutional Freedom.
“The Rule is whatever gets Harry Reid what he wants is the Rule!”
LOL!
Thanks,
That’s what I thought, but to give anyone a blank check is unreal, I figured I had to missing something. I’m saddened that I didn’t.
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