Senate holds another quickie session to frustrate Bush

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Senate holds another quickie session to frustrate Bush

WASHINGTON (CNN) — With the nation’s attention focused on Thanksgiving leftovers and bargain shopping, the Senate held another brief but significant session on Friday as part of a continuing effort to prevent President Bush from making unconfirmed “recess” appointments.

Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota took on the task of gaveling the Senate in and out of session; the formalities lasted approximately 28 seconds and no other senators were present. Dorgan followed Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, who presided over a similarly brief meeting on Tuesday. By not going into recess, Democrats can prevent President Bush from filling federal government posts without going through the confirmation process. Dorgan’s holiday plans were not disrupted; he told CNN he was happy to preside, as he had already planned to be on Capitol Hill on Friday for an appropriations meeting.

– CNN Contributor Jamie Gray

:applause:

Are there recess appointments we would have expected him to make otherwise?

Hey half a day of "work" to stop another John Bolton ...
fine by me.

someone anyway? He hasn't given a crap about Congress for along time now, so whats to stop him from just appointing anyone he wants when he wants?

.... in other words any person the President picked needs hearings and
if bush has a "stinker" than he would try to get 'em through w/ out
hearings i.e. John Bolton

and basically thumbed his nose at Congress... So it begs the question of why should he care about that piece of paper?

> before they trample on the spirit of the Constitution. I can only guess that Bush's Soliciter General hasn't come up with one for abandoning current recess appointment & related rules.

would touch the recess appointment rules...goes all the way back to-->

"President George Washington appointed South Carolina judge John Rutledge as Chief Justice of the United States during a congressional recess in 1795".

They tried to put the whole Bill of Rights through at one time -- must be made in China. :crazy:

Love it!

It takes these tactics to
deal with a petty president.
:patriot:

It's the least they can do, really.

For the most recent recess, Reid and Bush made an agreement that Bush wouldn't do any recess appointments. Bush wouldn't make the same promise this time, so Reid had to engineer these pro forma sessions.

counter at least one aspect of the imperial president.

Thanks Sen. Dorgan. :patriot:

Does anyone know -- Did CSPAN2 interrupt whatever was on to carry all 28 seconds?

glc

that thing in your back is a spine, use it more often

Good, but not good enough. I wanna hear

*bang*
"TheSenateIsNowInSession"
"MotionToAdjourn"
"ThereIsAMotionToAdjournDoIHearASecond?"
"Seconded"
"TheMotionBeingSecondedThoseInFavor"
"Aye"
"ThoseOpposed"
(silence)
"TheAyesHaveItMotionToAdjournIsApproved"
*bang*

Seven seconds, tops, if you've got the timing down right.

Does anybody have any business that they would like
to bring before the Senate?

10 second pause. Sen. Dorgan scans the chamber.

Seeing as there is no business that the members wnat to bring
before the Senate I ask for a motoin to adjourn ....

You gotta do things by the book. :rofl:

BTW The Dems in the Senate better watch out over Xmas break ....
guranteed the repugs are planning to have #s there so they can
manipulate the process. Count on it.

I love when they make us happy. :toast: to Harry Reid, Byron Dorgan, Jim Webb and others ...

Good job Senators.

It's about saving our country from a madman.

Bush's frustration would just be a nice side-effect, but I bet his only real frustration this holiday season is trying to sneak swigs of Jack Daniels without Laura catching him.

I would have thought they would make the freshman senators nearby do it. After Webb, it could have been Cardin from Maryland. Who else is nearby? Casey from PA maybe.

Well good for him...and good for the USA. Thank you Senator Dorgan for saving us from lunatic madmen who want to destroy this country.

we must hold bush accountable and this is a step in stopping him.

monkeybutt's term.

but at least they're doing something!

Perhaps he will notice that we're noticing and it might just give the Senate more incentive. Or not. But I'm an optimist.

He must have chewed through several packets of plastic army men.