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Family Security Matters » Publications » Exclusive: Is Rule of Law Dead in the Senate?: "Redstate.com’s Erick Erickson describes a rather shocking scenario which took place on the Senate floor on Wednesday, after Tom Coburn (R-OK) had objected to a unanimous consent request to dispense with the reading of socialist Bernie Sanders’ 767-page “single-payer” amendment to the health care bill and had the Senate clerk commence reading it…

For over 200 years, the Senate’s rules have ensured orderly and very fair debate. The minority has rights that the majority has never and would never trod upon. One of the chief rules of the Senate is that when one Senator has the floor, no other Senator may act.

Tom Coburn had the floor. He made the clerk read the amendment. Somehow, however, Senator Sanders was able to have his amendment yanks mid-reading.

Under Senate rules, that is flat out impossible.

Erickson then quotes from Senate rules as described by Riddick’s Senate Procedure…"


Don't think for a minute that this is over. They have time yet to pass this monstrosity and payoff all their pharma people and enact single payer with a requirement, a mandate for every american to purchase insurance at the last minute. ~~~ The Munz