{"id":472,"date":"2003-07-31T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/472.html"},"modified":"2003-07-31T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T20:11:39","slug":"pryor-loses-filibuster-vote-on-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/pryor-loses-filibuster-vote-on-senate-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pryor loses filibuster vote on Senate floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure enough, the Senate Republicans brought Bill Pryor&#8217;s judicial nomination to the Senate floor today, and sure enough, Dems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A8166-2003Jul31.html\">blocked a vote with a filibuster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP needed 60 votes to break the filibuster and approve Pryor&#8217;s nomination to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. They came up seven short.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, this does not mean the Pryor nomination is gone forever. The Senate majority can bring him back for a vote over and over again. In fact, they&#8217;ve done just that with Miguel Estrada&#8217;s judicial nomination. They brought him to the floor, Dems filibustered. So the Republicans waited a few months and brought his nomination to the floor again, and Dems filibustered again. This has happened <b>seven times<\/b>. (Do the Republicans think the Dems will suddenly change their minds? &#8220;We filibustered him the last six times, but since you&#8217;ve brought him back for a seventh, we&#8217;ve decided to vote for him this time.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans refuse to give up on the accusations of anti-Catholic bigotry. Today it was Sen. Rick &#8220;Man on Dog&#8221; Santorum (R-Pa.) charging, &#8220;This litmus test that is being applied is ultimately, is ultimately a religious one.&#8221; At least Santorum actually is Catholic, as opposed to some of the others who have leveled the baseless accusation. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) responded to Santorum&#8217;s claim by saying it was &#8220;beneath the dignity of the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure enough, the Senate Republicans brought Bill Pryor&#8217;s judicial nomination to the Senate floor today, and sure enough, Dems blocked a vote with a filibuster. The GOP needed 60 votes to break the filibuster and approve Pryor&#8217;s nomination to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. They came up seven short. Alas, this does not mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}