Harry Reid Files For Cloture On Hagel Nomination

[DonViejo]

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Source: TPM

IGOR BOBIC 4:18 PM EST, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed for cloture on the nomination of Chuck Hagel as the secretary of defense on Wednesday, saying it was the first time in history that such a nomination faced a filibuster.

"What a shame," Reid said on the Senate floor. "But, that's the way it is."

The Senate will vote to end debate on Friday, ultimately requiring 60 votes to proceed to final confirmation.

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Senate leader sets stage for vote on Hagel

BY BY RICHARD LARDNER

TOPICS: FROM THE WIRES, NEWS, POLITICS NEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat has set the stage for a full Senate vote by the end of the week on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion on Wednesday to limit debate and force a vote on Hagel’s nomination. Democrats hold a 55-45 edge in the Senate and have the numbers to confirm Hagel on a majority vote. But they would need the support of five Republicans before an up-or-down vote on the president’s pick to head the Defense Department would be allowed if the GOP decided to filibuster. Republicans have indicated they might delay a vote.

A divided Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday voted to approve Hagel by a 14-11 vote along partisan lines.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/senate_leader_sets_stage_for_vote_on_hagel/

[Lint Head]

1. Harry. It's that way because you let it be that way!

Spine does not exist.

[rateyes]

2. Harry, YOU are the one who made it so by not enacting sensible filibuster reform. Therefore, Harry,

shut the fuck up with your damned whining about it.

[SoCalMusicLover]

3. Never Could Have Seen This Coming

Looking forward to hearing Harry complain about this for the next two years. Who would have thunk it.

[heaven05]

4. all

responses, true that.

[Phlem]

5. Apparently Reid's OZ routine is wearing thin.

Must have been the new comers cheering his filibuster bluster. This is nothing new for Reid, I wanted him gone yesterday.

-p

[rsmith6621]

6. 391 Filings

...Since he became Senate majority leader.

[The Wizard]

7. After all this time

Harry hasn't figured out Republicans are Nihilistic sociopaths who can't be trusted. Mitch McConnell hasn't told the truth since he admitted homosexual behavior to get out of the army.

[hedda_foil]

8. McYertle admitted to "homosexual behavior to get of the army"????

That's a new one for me. My oh my, Andy. Do you have a link?

[The Wizard]

11. The unofficial story is

he got caught giving another guy a hand job in the shower. Mitch said he was helping the guy wash.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. That's an absolutely astonishing story that I didn't know about

until your post, with my own follow up with Google. Whether he's gay or not is not what I find striking. It's that apparently he desperately wanted out of the Army in a time of war (Vietnam) after serving only four months and that he used his family's political connections to put pressure on the Army to get discharged. There's apparently a file on the discharge hearing labeled Transcript Of Court Martial that has a very sketchy summary of the proceedings and McConnell never responded to requests to fill in the blanks on what actually occurred.

What I find astonishing is that he's now presiding over the threatened filibuster of a Vietnam war veteran when he himself ducked the war and that the press doesn't seem to see any story there.

[Politicub]

9. It's his own fucking fault

[another_liberal]

10. Hagel should be confirmed.

Hagel should be confirmed, he is the President's choice and the right kind of person for that job.

It's Brennan I would filibuster, until they carried me out on a stretcher.

[Ian Iam]

12. If Hagel is not the next SecDef,

then you may as well install Lord Bibi as God Emperor of America.

[another_liberal]

15. The Republicans . . .

The Republicans (and more than a few Democrats) would be quite happy to confirm Netanyahu any time they got a chance, venal panderers that they undoubtedly are.

[nikto]

13. This is the very Stupid and SPINELESS, Harry Reid's FAULT!

Chickens--t allies are barely better than enemies.

[jpak]

16. Well DUH Harry

yup