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Including the fact that Reid will use a procedure never before used in this history of the senate to pass this monster. Please use the link and read their entire post. The details of what Reid and Amnesty Republicans have planned for next week is invaluable.
Immigration Update
From a knowledgeable Senate source:
Here is what we expect to happen next week, though it is far from clear yet…
4. Once on the bill, Reid will again file cloture (to shut off debate – again, a number of Senators will continue to object to unanimous consent agreements) – this time on the bill itself.
5. The guessing begins at this point – but we expect Reid – with the help and support of certain Republican leadership and the Grand Bargainers – to do something that we believe has never been done in the history of the Senate… he will use an arcane Senate procedure that allows a single amendment to be divisible into many – in this case, into the 20-odd amendments the Grand Bargainers are trying to cobble together to keep 60 votes in support of the bill. Traditionally, that amendment has been used to protect minority rights – but in this case, it will be used to PREVENT the minority from getting additional amendments called up and from being able to fully debate the amendments in question. It is, to our knowledge, unprecedented…
If Reid does this, with the help of certain Republican leadership and the Grand Bargainers, they will shut off the ability of Senators with concerns of the bill to offer additional amendments and to debate the amendments in question.
In the end, this means that if they have 60 lined up to support it – there is little that can be done procedurally – so it has become far more important than ever for Senators to hear from their constituents.
Another GREAT Show, Tammy…the “inside” scheduling information proves you’ve got great sources;
Would you please also repeat that “Jimmy Carter” analogy to GW Bush…”in a cowboy hat”…that was really funny…I love your writer (that’d be you..)
The one thing that CAN be done procedurally to potentially stop a huge bad bill dead in its tracks even if you don’t have 40 Senators to prevent cloture, is for someone to move for the bill to be read in full. And for any amendments to be read in full. And at every stage in the process, each “reading” of the bill, which is usually just nominally called that, but which here would really be the Secretary of the Senate reading the whole 1000+ page monstrosity live on the floor and into the Congressional Record. The Senate would need unanimous consent to waive further reading, and of course you’d never get that.