Folks asking why other Dems don’t step in so Booker can stop. As soon as Booker yields the floor the Republican majority will adjourn the session. - ThreadSky

keeptroyblue.bsky.social • 24 days ago

Folks asking why other Dems don’t step in so Booker can stop. As soon as Booker yields the floor the Republican majority will adjourn the session.

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smtaber.bsky.social•24 days ago

I learned this from The West Wing - “The Stackhouse Filibuster” (Season 2, Episode 17).

davestewart1969.bsky.social•24 days ago

They have, briefly.

keeptroyblue.bsky.social•24 days ago

They are allowed to ask questions.

einnob.bsky.social•24 days ago

They can all ask questions, slow, measured questions he answered by saying I hear your question but I do not yield the floor Schumer should be out there asking questions all the Dem senator should on the floor asking questions slow, measured questions
giving Sen Booker a break.

waystohelp.bsky.social•24 days ago

Schumer did ask a few questions earlier this morning. Many others elongate their questions as possible. I would estimate about 20 senators have come in and out with questions to sustain him so far. I called my senators asking them to join him with questions; others can, too.

helenafluterer.bsky.social•24 days ago

The folks asking this haven't been watching

taurenmoo.bsky.social•24 days ago

exactly, they can help with questions, but they can't give him a break which is why he cedes to a question without ceding the position.

offshorecapt20.bsky.social•24 days ago

Then they should just keep talking, and switching speakers. Don’t let them adjourn

iushosh.bsky.social•24 days ago

Which is why you are seeing him yielding for a question without yielding the floor

rescue90.bsky.social•24 days ago

Do Republicans all have to sit there and listen too?

helenafluterer.bsky.social•24 days ago

No. They can leave. Certainly, very few of them are there.

keeptroyblue.bsky.social•24 days ago

Dem Senators are giving him small breaks by using parliamentary procedure to ask questions. But Booker must assert that he is not yielding the floor.

pnw-blue-squatch.bsky.social•24 days ago

Thank you, Troy. So many of us do not understand parliamentary procedures and wondering how this is different from a filibuster.

7mir.bsky.social•24 days ago

“ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there!!” @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com

codhisattva.bsky.social•24 days ago

What Dem doesn’t know how to ask a long winded question?

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•24 days ago

TY.
I was wondering why no one was relieving him.

viscountbosham.bsky.social•24 days ago

Can you imagine what kind of delirious, barking, madder-than-a-shithouse-rat gibberish would be coming out of Donald Trump's mouth after 17 hours straight of talking on television?

thene.bsky.social•24 days ago

the same as usual then?

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