Senators Move To End Secret Holds - Huffington Post

[JohnWxy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/21/senators-secret-holds-end_n_620242.html


The opponents of a rule that allows lawmakers to anonymously delay Senate confirmation proceedings have garnered enough support to overturn the rule. In a Rules Committee hearing this Wednesday, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) will testify against the so-called secret holds rule alongside Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden, who have been trying to pass legislation banning the rule since the late 1990s.

On Saturday McCaskill announced that her letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid requesting a vote to end the secret holds rule had 67 signatures. The last two signatories were Republican Sens. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kansas).

"First battle won!With Sens Bond and Brownback now have 67 Senators on my letter calling for the end to secret holds.Now gotta get a vote," McCaskill wrote on Twitter.

Grassley and Wyden, who tried unsuccessfully to squeeze the ban into financial regulatory legislation in May, hope this newest effort will put a stop to a rule lawmakers long abused, senior Sen. Richard Shelby's (R-Ala.) hold earlier this year on 70 of President Obama's nominees being a prime example.
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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. They moved?

Well that's sumthin'...

[lamp_shade]

2. I'm so happy about this. I wonder if it'll be televised. She worked TIRELESSLY to move this.

[Demeter]

3. I Know Who I'm Voting for President!

You go, girl!