Posted on 05/19/2005 8:17:55 AM PDT by Peach
I'm so glad you reminded me about that option; I'm going to start saving stuff there instead of Favorites.
It's a much smarter way to do it.
Ping! Thanks I've been looking for these!!!!
Bump
If so, what ammunition!!
The list was gathered from several conservative news organization's articles and freepers have compiled the entire list which details the date and where the comments were made.
I haven't independently verified the list, but unless 3-4 conservative news organizations are all using the same lies, then I'm assuming it's correct.
Also, we have enough media and trolls who visit here that if the list was incorrect, we'd be told by now. LOL
Most of them come straight out of the Congressional Record.
I just read this quickly and I have a question: Why were the Democrats making these comments? Were the Republicans trying to hold up votes?
I don't know the answer to your question but assume that Republicans were holding up the vote of some Democrat nominee.
Forward this to Brit Hume.
We need to ALL e-mail to Brit and Rush and the Judicial Committee. They won't read it until they get hundreds of copies.
Great job OXEN!
Then why do we keep hearing that it's never been done before? I'm not doubting you, just asking.
Filibustering judicial nominees never has been done before, although some claim that it was done with Abe Fortis back in the 1960's. But the GOP didn't need to filibuster. As the majority party they controlled the committee schedule. And Jesse Helms was chairman. So killing judicial nominees at the committee level was a piece of cake.
I guess that I wanted to know if they were doing the same thing that the Democrats are doing right now. I think Rush has been saying that the Democrats are the ones who started doing this six years ago and that it hadn't been done before this. Were the Republicans keeping the vote from getting out of committee so that it could go to a full vote in the Senate? (I know that you don't know, but I'm wondering if anyone else does.)
Add Colorado Senator Ken Salazar to the summary.
"I would hope all nominees get up or down votes," Salazar answered. "And the decision on an up-or-down vote should be based on whether or not the president's nominee is qualified for the position."
Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/3/26/1020/90795
Good find. Thank you!
Yes. The majority party runs the Judiciary Committee, and the chairman runs the schedule. One one or two occasions nominees that had been voted out of committee were blocked by Senator Helms. Not a single one of these actions violated any Senate rule. But then again, neither does the filibuster.
Great list. But the Republicans weren't filibustering, they were holding the names in committee and refusing to send them to the floor.
"Should we take our time on these federal judges? Yes. Do I have any apologies? Only one: I probably moved too many already." -- Trent Lott, 1998
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