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Related: About this forumSenate GOP will delay vote on Obama judicial nominee until wee hours
Senate GOP will delay vote on Obama judicial nominee until wee hours
Senate Republicans are prepared to force a middle-of-the-night vote on one of President Obama's judicial nominees in retaliation for Democrats invoking the so-called nuclear option to change Senate rules on presidential nominees.
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Republicans planned Wednesday to turn the Senate rules to their own advantage by insisting on using all of the available debate time on an Obama nominee, which would push the vote late into the night. A Senate GOP aide said similar actions are in the offing.
Reid "put all the wheels in motion. He created this structure," Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune, of South Dakota, told the Washington Examiner.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was scheduled to take to the floor shortly after the Senate convened Wednesday afternoon and hold it for about an hour. Other Republicans will continue the debate late into Wednesday night, delaying a vote on Nina Pillard to the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals until 12:45 a.m. Thursday at the earliest. That's when the 30 hours of debate time expires.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/senate-gop-will-delay-vote-on-obama-judicial-nominee-until-wee-hours/article/2540565?custom_click=rss
AND another article with even more info here: http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/senate-prepares-for-all-nighter-on-nominations/
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Senate GOP will delay vote on Obama judicial nominee until wee hours (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Dec 2013
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)1. Do they have their diapers ready in the wee hours?
Cha
(297,451 posts)2. That's all they know is REVENGE.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)3. So, this is their punishment to the Democrats?
Get up in the middle of the night and vote? What a bunch of assh*les.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)4. Live-stream link below