#senate-procedure

#senate-procedure

Young was promised that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would appear before the Foreign Relations Committee in a public hearing after next week's recess and assured that the administration will come to Congress first if U.S. military forces are needed in Venezuela, he said. He cited his talks with Rubio as influential in his decision. "To have the secretary of state be at my disposal - really, I mean, countless phone conversations and text exchanges - was very reassuring to me," he told reporters.

Ingraham shared a headline from Politico on Monday night that read, Rand Paul wants hemp vote to speed up shutdown endgame. She captioned the story with her own words, adding, Rand Paul wants to hold things up in the Senate so more Americans can get buzzed on hemp-products. Ingraham's apparent dig at Paul, who has long been a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump on foreign policy and a few other issues, led to a response from the Kentucky Senator.

On the Senate floor, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) asked for unanimous consent - a procedure that allows noncontroversial bills to pass without a roll-call vote - to immediately consider and pass the No Coffee Tax Act, which she co-authored with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Video of the session shows Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the Republican chair of the Senate Finance Committee, objecting - a move that blocks the unanimous-consent request and sends the bill back to committee.

I have eight GREAT U.S. Attorneys, Highly Respected ALL, who will not be confirmed for their positions in various Highly Consequential States only because they're Republicans, and the Democrats have convinced Chuck Grassley to honor the stupid and outdated Blue Slip tradition, which precludes very talented and dedicated people from attaining High Office. The Democrats violate this practice in order to get people in, but Republicans just don't.