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It's Wednesday! No cloture votes yet. No judges confirmed. WHAT IS THE SENATE DOING???
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_115_2.htm ^

Posted on 05/02/2018 2:14:21 AM PDT by cotton1706

They're probably spending all their time crying together in the cloak room about this being John McCain's last term.

(Excerpt) Read more at senate.gov ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections

1 posted on 05/02/2018 2:14:21 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Arranging an awards dinner for Jeff Sessions.


2 posted on 05/02/2018 2:15:01 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Pravious

C’mon....Rubio is working hard on doing away with daylight savings!!!!!
Important stuff!


3 posted on 05/02/2018 2:20:41 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: cotton1706
Lindsey is preparing to meet his own and Juan's end by busily gathering firewood for their Sati pyre.
4 posted on 05/02/2018 2:28:52 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: cotton1706

The Globalist #DeepState is doing everything it can to thwart PDJT’s America First agenda. Right Mitch?


5 posted on 05/02/2018 2:37:37 AM PDT by stilloftyhenight ("Victorious warriors win first, then go to war." Sun Tzu)
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To: cotton1706

The Senate is broken beyond repair. Besides being perfumped, pampered princes, they are geriatric.

People that old are not known for high energy. Or brain power.

It’s half nursing home, for wealthy old “nobles.”

They are not capable of 40 hour work weeks, let alone 60.


6 posted on 05/02/2018 2:44:41 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Fire Sessions!!!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Almost all of the over-80 senators are Republican. Hopefully the worst of them are not running for re-election.


7 posted on 05/02/2018 3:50:10 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: Freee-dame

And Mitch panders to them, by refusing to make them keep normal working hours. They work what, 3 days a week now?

A travesty.


8 posted on 05/02/2018 3:54:24 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Fire Sessions!!!)
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To: Freee-dame
Hopefully the worst of them are not running for re-election.

Turtleface isn't up for reelection this year ...

9 posted on 05/02/2018 3:54:39 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: cotton1706
What is anyone in the congress doing?

Is there any work being done on the budget for fiscal year 2019 which begins October 1, 2018.

By law {there is a yoke, yeb} the congress MUST have passed and the President must have signed a budget, by midnight on September 30, 2018, or the gummint shuts down.

Has any work been done on the 12 appropriations bills in the House and then sent to the Senate? Do any of the congress critters give a fat rat's ass about the law?

Hell no.

10 posted on 05/02/2018 3:54:53 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Lindsey is preparing to meet his own and Juan's end by busily gathering firewood for their Sati pyre.

I'll be chuckling about that all day.

11 posted on 05/02/2018 3:57:42 AM PDT by Dahoser
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To: cotton1706

If this is true then why do I keep hearing and reading stories about how this Administration has had more judges seated than any in recent history. Trump’s judges are either getting approved in record numbers or they’re not and if they’re not which Administration has had more judges approved in the time frame in which Donald Trump has been president?


12 posted on 05/02/2018 4:48:52 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
"... they are geriatric.[SNIP] ____________________________

In their walk through the chamber's doors, there is never the width to accommodate the walkers on wheels which is certainly a necessity.



13 posted on 05/02/2018 4:57:41 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: billyboy15; cotton1706

If they are, or aren’t, what’s it matter to begin?

If/until they actually adhere to the Constitution, they are nothing more than bureaucracy; worse, Judicial activists (and shouldn’t BE on the bench).

Reduce the size & scope of Fedzilla and the # of judges would necessarily reduce.


14 posted on 05/02/2018 5:18:07 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: cotton1706

John McCain has one more term to serve; it is in eternal judgment.


15 posted on 05/02/2018 5:37:12 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: cotton1706

“WHAT IS THE SENATE DOING?”

NOTHING! That’s what they do best . . . the only way to get them moving is for Trump to poke them with a sharp stick! Good thing it’s not an election year . . . oh wait a minute . . .


16 posted on 05/02/2018 5:38:40 AM PDT by t4texas (If you can't run with the big dogs . . . STAY ON THE PORCH!)
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To: billyboy15

They are but why stop????


17 posted on 05/02/2018 5:48:21 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: cotton1706
Reportedly, McConnell has lined up votes on six Appeals Court judges next week and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to limit the amount of time for debate on judges:

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/385728-republicans-confirming-trumps-court-nominees-at-record-pace

In addition to the 15 appeals court nominees already confirmed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has set up votes on six additional circuit court nominees for next week, when the chamber returns from a week-long recess. That will bring the total number of appeals court nominees confirmed for Trump up to 21.

At 21 appeals court judges confirmed, Senate Republicans will only be one short of that record — the 22 circuit nominations President George H.W. Bush got through the Senate during his first two years.

18 posted on 05/02/2018 9:23:00 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: cotton1706

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/mcconnell-prepared-confirm-judges-new-years


19 posted on 05/03/2018 8:20:26 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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