We have a majority sufficient to PASS these bills.. make them vote..

Voice vote, roll call vote, whatever--but not by consent, which is how the legislation was intended (by Pelosi) to be passed in the absence of most of the members.

I've pulled this kind of crap in committees (and had it pulled on me, when I chaired committees). It's annoying, but at the same time it's both easy to spin these actions to mean something they're not intended to mean, and easy to ask why the crap's being pulled. Sometimes there's a reason; often it's entirely unrelated to the motion but criticism of the chair (which stings only when you're the chair and people stop to understand the reason for the crap) or something unexpected. After a while, it becomes a strange mix of really annoying but also mildly amusing.

A lot of this kind of procedural nitpicking is very, very meta. It helps to decommit a bit.

record their Votes. They could have Skated,but now it is Campaign Fodder. Stupid.

cover and they could not even figure that one out.

Well,now there will be a recorded vote. And rest assured,those Nay's will pay the price.

Given that almost all of them come from regions affected the most by recent climate driven disasters.

various Pundit's. This is ammo for the Speaker to unleash on the Rethugs..