Democrats Take Over Senate Floor Refusing Move

If pelosi and house democrats try to impeach the president we will take the movement to remove her from speakership.

Democrats take over senate floor refusing move.

Senate majority leader sen. Senate republicans are moving full steam ahead toward a confirmation vote on supreme court nominee judge amy coney barrett before election day and there is little democrats can do to stop it. The senate democrats attempted to deny the confirmation of president donald trump s nominee to head the department of education betsy devos. Senate democrats have already made their first move to slow down the chamber s operation.

Some democrats floated the highly unlikely. Democrats will probably keep the senate in a president biden s first midterm if they take it with any margin this fall more vulnerable republicans are up for reelection in 2022 but they. One of these is a war powers resolution which if passed by the house can be put to the senate floor even by democrats who are in the minority. Ultimately it failed as vice president mike pence cast the deciding vote and devos was confirmed.

Capitol in washington saturday march 21 2020. Capitol february 11 2020 in washington d c. On tuesday afternoon democrats invokedthe two hour rule which limits the time when committees may hold hearings while the full senate is in session. They did so by engaging in an all night debate on the senate floor as their form of protest against the nominee.

The president is supposed to move forward and they will. Senate television via ap. The senate is supposed to take the action and they will it s their constitutional right and they are following through mccarthy said. While president donald trump brought his sales pitch for wall to the texas mexico border thursday senate compromise talks to end the government shutdown stalled and congressional democrats and.

Statehood for puerto rico is the biggest potential threat if democrats take over congress and the white house but that s another story. That could take democrat numbers in the senate into the low 40s. If democrats manage to hold the house of representatives and win back the senate and the white house in november the party will have full control of the federal government for the first time in.