Feingold to take Senate floor at approx 11:30 EST

[burythehatchet]

to introduce censure resolution.

Just seen on SPAN crawl

[Coexist]

1. Woo hoo!

thank you SO much for that heads up.

[The Witch]

2. K&R,that's the news I wanted to hear!!!!!!!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :applause: :woohoo:

[burythehatchet]

5. I've been calling his office all morning trying to get this info

they couldn't help me but the SPAN comes through!

[democrank]

3. Been searching around looking for this info.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[Nictuku]

4. Yes!!

Thank you for posting this.

K&R

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Turn it on now.. and get a little education

2007 budget debate, dem hour. Conrad is detailing the effects of b*sh running our country into the ground, with charts. ;)

[Coexist]

"with charts"

Lol!

FWIW - we all know that Barbara Boxer is Queen of the Charts - this guy has nothing on her!!
:evilgrin:

[burythehatchet]

8. I had to mute Judd Gregg

but Kent is using the charts that the "30 somethings" shows frequently during their lonely evening sessions.

[Coexist]

10. so we are broke - and we must cut entitlements

but not stop sending billions to Iraq.

What utter bullshit.

[burythehatchet]

12. No kidding

just keep pouring the next generations money into Cheney's pockets. What a travesty. We need a war profiteering act passed in the Democratic congress.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. BUSINESS INVESTMENT IS LAGGING BY 62%!!!!

OMFG!

I've never seen that before.

this is very, very bad. :(

[Coexist]

13. Tax Cuts for Millionaire board deserves a screenshot!

Oh my, I wish I could.

LiveOakTx showed me how, but I have not purchased the program yet.

Holy cow.

[burythehatchet]

14. It IS bad

And in my opinion the primary reason is that business knows how horrible Bush is for the country. If Dems take some control the investment floodgates will open. The money is there, but its on the sidelines until the thieves are kicked out.

[Coexist]

15. Conrad is kicking some ass

"is it more important to give tax cuts to millionaires than put more police officers on the streets, I don't think so."

[spindrifter]

7. This is great!

[burythehatchet]

9. The resolution will obviously be defeated

but it will force Repubelicans to go on record. And it gets Russ's comments into the official record.

[yodermon]

16. How does the procedure work?

Will he introduce it, and then it's voted on?
Or will it be "tabled" and not voted on?
Will he really be able to get every senator on the record, up or down, for a censure resolution like this?
:popcorn:

[burythehatchet]

17. My knowledge of Parliamentary rules is not deep enough

to know the answer to that question. Maybe someone else can address that....and pass the popcorn. :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

18. In the Senate, a censure resolution could be introduced and would be

referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee

That's all I can find so far.


More on censure proceedings here, most of it applies to the House though.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/impeach/censure.htm

[Mass]

21. Not necessarily - it is also possible that Frist never call it for a vote.

and Specter could also never call it in committee.

In which case, all it does is to have Feingold on the record.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. Damn! we'll have to wait a little longer, Gregg just asked for 15

more minutes.

[burythehatchet]

20. and the minutes are d r a g g i n g by

[Viva_La_Revolution]

22. he got all huffy, and didn't even take that long. lol

looked a teeny bit upset, somebody didn't fill him in. :D

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. man was that Sununu yapping? I am listening to it while working.

does anyone there actually listen to the incessant babbling ?? Yikes, almighty. Raise their pay !

[Viva_La_Revolution]

24. Senate is now in Morning Business...

that nasty little Gregg person requested that the Morning business time (1.5 hours) be subtracted from the debate time for the budget resolution.

[burythehatchet]

25. NOOOOOOO, the classical music

The carwl keeps saying "coming up" re: Russ.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. C-Span 2. Have it on and am waiting! eom

[Norquist Nemesis]

27. I half expect a small plane to enter DC airspace any moment

Waiting right along with you. :)

[burythehatchet]

28. Enjoy the music

:hi:

I just watched the Soledad show with Russ. That was quite the travesty.