FIlibuster/Court Nominee News

FIlibuster/Court Nominee News

Thank goodness the Reps finally did it. They voted to change the judicial nominee filibuster rules so as to force the senate to vote on the candidates. This rule changes still has to pass a vote on the Senate floor but I think it will pass. As for doing this while the Dems were missing . . . . It was a scheduled meeting. They knew when and where it was to take place. They did not show up but the Reps did. Tough. If they felt that it was not important enough for them to show up to their committee meeting, that was their decision.

FOXNews.com

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee with all its Democratic members absent voted to limit filibusters (search) of President Bush's judicial nominees (search) Tuesday, a move Republicans hope will usher future federal judges through the Senate faster, even if Democrats want to stop them.

Democrats oppose changing Senate filibuster rules for judicial nominees, but Republicans have a one-vote majority on the Senate Rules Committee (search) and expected to win Tuesday's committee vote in any case. Democrats are expected to fight the measure on the Senate floor.

The Rules Committee officially voted 10-0 for the measure, which would reduce the number of senators needed to force a vote on a judicial nominee with each successive vote until only a 51-member majority is needed.