{"id":13678,"date":"2007-11-21T16:40:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T21:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13678.html"},"modified":"2007-11-21T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T21:40:48","slug":"30-second-sessions-to-scuttle-bushs-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/30-second-sessions-to-scuttle-bushs-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"30-second sessions to scuttle Bush&#8217;s mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to put a period on a story we were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13620.html\">following last week<\/a>, Senate Dems really are going to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/11\/21\/dems-using-30second-sess_n_73744.html\">pro-forma sessions<\/a> over the next couple of weeks in order to prevent the president from making any recess appointments.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pro forma sessions, which will continue through a week from Thanksgiving, will require several Senate Democrats to work through the Holiday break.<\/p>\n<p>Those Senators, the Huffington Post has learned, are Sen. Jim Webb, D-VA &#8211; who stood session this past Tuesday &#8212; Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND &#8211; who will work this coming Friday &#8211; and Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI &#8211; who will be on the clock both Tuesday, November 27 and Thursday the 29th.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hope is that this will prompt the President to see that it is our mutual interests for the nominations process to get back on track,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, said of the parliamentary move. &#8220;While an election year looms, significant progress can still be made on nominations. I am committed to making that progress if the President will meet me half way. But that progress can&#8217;t be made if the President seeks controversial recess appointments and fails to make Democratic appointments to important commissions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to Sens. Webb, Dorgan, and Reed. Gold stars, all around, especially to Dorgan, who&#8217;s going to go to Capitol Hill the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this for a couple of reasons. First, because those three deserve a round of applause. Second, because Dems will frequently talk about doing something like this, but then fall back in line when the time comes. It&#8217;s encouraging to see that this won&#8217;t be the case this week and next.<\/p>\n<p>As for the pro-forma sessions themselves, Webb, Dorgan, and Reed will show up for 30 seconds, and then go home. It may seem ridiculous, but then again, so is Bush&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to put a period on a story we were following last week, Senate Dems really are going to have pro-forma sessions over the next couple of weeks in order to prevent the president from making any recess appointments. The pro forma sessions, which will continue through a week from Thanksgiving, will require several Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}