{"id":531,"date":"2008-06-05T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/06\/05\/late_night_senate_drama\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:27:12","slug":"late_night_senate_drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/06\/05\/late_night_senate_drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Night&#8217;s Senate Floor Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2008\/02\/sheryl_canter.jpg' alt='Sheryl Canter' height=\"80\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" class=\"blogAuthorPic\" \/><i>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It took until 9:45pm last night to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/06\/04\/reading_entire_bill\/\">reading aloud the 491-page Climate Security Act<\/a> &#8211; the latest in a series of Republican stall tactics. Afterwards, a very angry Harry Reid (Senate Majority Leader) accused Republicans of &quot;doing everything in their power to slow, stop and stall&quot; the bill, citing a GOP strategy memo obtained from a lobbyist. The memo (this <a href=\"http:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2008\/6\/5\/6325\/58138\">Grist post<\/a> links to it) said the Republicans&#8217; goal was to &quot;make political points&quot; rather than amend the bill.<\/p>\n<p>To move things forward, Reid filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/reference\/glossary_term\/cloture.htm\">cloture<\/a> motion to limit debate to 30 hours and proceed with a vote. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pr-inside.com\/republican-senators-demand-a-reading-of-r626071.htm\">sparked another fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Republicans argued that there weren&#8217;t enough senators in the chamber to make the motion. So late last night, Reid asked for a vote on whether the Sergeant-at-Arms should summon absent senators back to the chamber. The vote was defeated 27-28, but senators had to be called back for the procedural vote and Reid got his quorum, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate will debate the Climate Security Act today and tomorrow. The cloture vote, which requires 60 votes to pass, is scheduled for late Friday morning. If the motion doesn&#8217;t pass, Reid is expected to pull the bill from the floor, leaving the issue for next year with a new president and a new Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund. It took until 9:45pm last night to finish reading aloud the 491-page Climate Security Act &#8211; the latest in a series of Republican stall tactics. 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