Is the Senate in Recess?

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Thursday November 08, 2018 · 8:42 AM PST

2018/11/08 · 08:42

Sorry for this being a very short diary, but I wanted to clear something up; Is the Senate in recess? My understanding is that it is in profoma session (the floor calendar seems to support this), but I’m a bit unclear. I just spoke with Sen. Schumer’s office and was told that the appointment of Whitaker is legal as it is a recess appointment. I asked to clarify if the Senate was in recess and was told it is. It is very troubling to me that the Minority Leader either doesn’t know the law, or doesn’t know that the Senate is not in recess. Am i missing something?

My other concern is that he doesn’t want the fight and is going to pretend that there is nothing he can do because of a recess appointment, which might be the most troubling thought of all.

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Tuesday June 25, 2013 · 11:51 AM PDT

2013/06/25 · 11:51

This isn't going to be a long diary, it is more for information so please excuse the length.

Many people are aware of the action in the Texas Senate today, the last day of the special session to pass draconian anti-choice legislation that would shutdown the vast majority of clinics in Texas and prohibit all abortion after 20 weeks. Currently, Sen. Wendy Davis is leading a filibuster that is expected to go until midnight central time when the session ends and the threat is over (for now).

For more information on the situation please see Nomandates recommended diary

and BlueIsland's Diary Here

For those of us that can't be there, lets find a way to help, more below the fold

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Friday September 23, 2011 · 4:02 PM PDT

2011/09/23 · 16:02

My father, a fellow liberal (I actually introduced him to Dkos today) is active on a message board for dentist. Over the years the forum has become very political and a subgroup entirely about politics has emerged, and is dominated by teabaggers. He is the lone liberal in the group and is frequently the target of their paranoid anger and rants. Recently one of the baggers challenged him that if he would answer 25 questions he would donate $50 to the charity of my Dad's choice. Never one to back down, he quickly accepted the challenge. Over the last few weeks, we have had good fun answering the questions and reading the responses from the questioner. After yesterday's question, I decided it would be great to bring this community in on the fun and get insight from its members while answering the questions.

My plan is this: For each question I will post the question and my dad and my initial response. As this community is know to do, i'm sure there will be great discussion which can then be incorporated into the final response. Once the response is good, we will send it to the bagger. Then I'll post their responses to the same diary. I've been having a lot of fun with these questions, and i'm hoping yall will too.

Without further adieu today's question (below the fold)

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Tuesday June 29, 2010 · 12:09 PM PDT

2010/06/29 · 12:09

The Huffington Post is running a story about an interview that Sharron Angle gave in January in which sheopposes abortion even for rape and incest.. Somehow that wasn't the worst of what she said, more below the fold:

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NV-Sen: Angle Opposes Abortion in cases of rape and incest, and thats not the worst part.