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Under the rules of this committee you cannot proceed," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at the start of the meeting.
Just as Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer pledged, Democrats on Thursday tried to throw roadblocks into the path of a vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court.
The stunts began shortly after Thursday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee opened. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was the only Democrat to show up to the committee's initial markup. He quickly made a motion to end the meeting because there were not two minority members present as required to make a quorum — exactly as Schumer promised to do.
"Under the rules of this committee you cannot proceed with the business of the committee, even with a quorum present, unless there are two members of the minority present as well," Durbin told committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at the start of the meeting. "I want to take official note of the fact that I am the only member of the minority that is here."
Graham introduced the motion anyway and scheduled a committee vote on Barrett for 1 p.m. on Oct. 22. Other Democratic senators then began filing in.
But that wasn't the only stunt Democrats tried to pull. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) then made a motion to indefinitely delay the vote on Barrett. That led to open debate among the committee senators, who were gathered with the intent of hearing from witnesses who know Barrett and other experts on her judicial past
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Just as Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer pledged, Democrats on Thursday tried to throw roadblocks into the path of a vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court.
The stunts began shortly after Thursday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee opened. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was the only Democrat to show up to the committee's initial markup. He quickly made a motion to end the meeting because there were not two minority members present as required to make a quorum — exactly as Schumer promised to do.
"Under the rules of this committee you cannot proceed with the business of the committee, even with a quorum present, unless there are two members of the minority present as well," Durbin told committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at the start of the meeting. "I want to take official note of the fact that I am the only member of the minority that is here."
Graham introduced the motion anyway and scheduled a committee vote on Barrett for 1 p.m. on Oct. 22. Other Democratic senators then began filing in.
But that wasn't the only stunt Democrats tried to pull. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) then made a motion to indefinitely delay the vote on Barrett. That led to open debate among the committee senators, who were gathered with the intent of hearing from witnesses who know Barrett and other experts on her judicial past
Senate Democrats pull procedural stunts in bid to thwart vote on Supreme Court nominee Barrett
"Under the rules of this committee you cannot proceed," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at the start of the meeting.
justthenews.com
