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4 Mar, 7 tweets, 1 min read
The best “forcing them to read the amendment” I ever saw was when Sanders demanded a vote on his single-payer plan in exchange for supporting ACA, Reid relented to a few hours debate and a vote that was going to 5-95, and then Coburn surprise-refused to waive the reading by UC.
The best part was that, when Coburn wouldn’t relent, Danders tried to withdraw the (1000 page) amendment, and the chair informed he he couldn’t, because it was being read!
Never saw the phones light up at CRS so fast.
If I recall correctly, C-SPAN ran a ticker with an estimate that it would take 40+ hours to read the bill. They were still reading the table of contents 30 minutes in.
This is all in the context of the Dems trying to get ACA done before Christmas, and Sanders being a real pain.
Eventually they did what you have to do, they made some procedural move that flew in the face of precedent and wormed their way out, but it was a truly exciting/hilarious 90 minutes.
Molly, as usual, beat me to this!

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4 Mar
I've long thought that the secret to quickly destroying minority obstruction in the Senate was for a pro-reform Senator to go sit at his/her desk and object to every UC, without end. They'd have to reform the place, or expel you. It just can't function under the actual rules.
Now maybe they could reform around your objections and maintain the vital structures of obstruction. But if you make them read amendments, finish quorum calls, have morning hour, read the journal, prevent cmmtes, etc, it's gonna be tough to undercut you w/o a reform floodgate.
Note that I'm not saying this is a good idea. I just always thought an intense faction would (and may still) develop that would force the issue before an actual majority slowly coalesced around nuking the legislative filibuster.
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2 Mar
Good news for anyone terrified by the coming lack of Dr. Seuss titles available for purchase: roughly 50-100 of them are lying around each house in the country that has small children. Good lord, it’s like they grow in the family room. I have no idea how we acquired so many.
Seriously, I have a couple dozen that are from my childhood, my wife has a similar pile, and my kids have been gifted most of them again, at least once.
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18 Feb
People who think the job of a member of Congress during a local natural disaster is purely performative have definitely never been around a member of Congress during a local natural disaster. It might be the single situation where they can (and do) most affect policy outcomes.
In most situations, members of Congress are legislators, not executives. But in local emergencies, they often take on a role that mimics executive decision-making, as they become a federal coordinator / POC for local executives.
In the legislature, they are one of 435 or 100. In a local emergency, they are conduit to tons of resources and a resource who can effectively coordinate certain sets of actors and lean on people to make things happen. Can very much turn into administrators.
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11 Feb
One congressional truism is this: if you ran the Senate on the House procedures, you would lose some things but it would ultimately work fine. But if you ran the House on the Senate procedures, it would turn into some combo of Lord of the Flies and Mad Max within hours.
Just imagine Gohmert Hour, except you can’t stop it, and it’s happening in the middle of trying to conduct business.

That’s problem one of about six dozen.
Meanwhile, Matt Gaetz is moving to table the motion to proceed. Not a specific motion to proceed. Every one of them.

Unfortunately, Andy Biggs won’t give unanimous consent to *anything,* so there’s nothing to do but try to move motions to proceed.
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11 Feb
I've watched the procedural clusterfuck 3 times now, and my favorite part, I think, is Schumer trying to break into a roll call vote (!) to get a quorum call started, and then it not being clear if the next name call by the clerk is the roll call or quorum call? @mollyereynolds
For the record, it appear to me to be plainly out of order to suggest the absence of a quorum after the roll call has commenced and someone has responded to the call. (But I can't tell if anyone actually responds to the call).

Senate, I love you and hate you so much.
I *think* if no one has responded to the roll call, then it's possible the quorum call was in order, and thus when the clerk says "Baldwin" we're actually in a quorum call, not the roll call (i.e. the roll call that we don't know what we are voting on).

Senate, you are the best.
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9 Feb
I am still of the mind that the Dems/Congress made a series of strategic errors on 1/6 regarding impeachment. I'm not really blaming them---these were very weighty decisions that would have had to have been made on short notice---but they seem wrong in retrospect.
Schumer should not have agreed to the UC that setup the pro forma sessions running through 1/19. While it's true the Senate leaders (probably) now have the authority to break into adjournments, they lost the opportunity to press the importance of immediacy.
More importantly, Pelosi should not have adjourned the House on 1/7 until 1/10. I would have preferred an immediate impeachment vote, but at the very least she should have only adjourned until 1/8, and kept everyone in town.
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