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This is a story about the time Robert C Byrd bluffed & attrited his way to setting a Senate precedent.
The Senate must be in Executive Session before it may consider an item on the Executive Calendar – eg, a nomination. That used to be a two-step process, as seen here…
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The Senate must be in Executive Session before it may consider an item on the Executive Calendar – eg, a nomination. That used to be a two-step process, as seen here…
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There, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield:
1) made a non-debatable motion to go into Exec Session, and after it was agreed to
2) made a debatable motion to consider a specific nomination.
1) made a non-debatable motion to go into Exec Session, and after it was agreed to
2) made a debatable motion to consider a specific nomination.
But after Byrd replaced Mansfield as majority leader in 1977, he went about creating a non-debatable ONE-step process. Why? B/c if he could find enough votes for cloture on a nomination a group of Repubs was filibustering, a one-step process would save him lots of floor time.
Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-TN) and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) have a moment on the Senate floor.
Can you tell what was happening?
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Can you tell what was happening?
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Here's a hint: This is the very next line in the Record...
Another hint: After that line, these are the next two lines in the Record...
