McConnell shuts down Warren for reading Corretta Scott King letter

[JA]

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318422-mcconnell-warrens-blistering-sessions-speech-broke-senate-rules

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Read Sen. Warren's Twitter feed on the subject here.

Elizabeth Warren‏ @SenWarren
Tonight @SenateMajLdr silenced Mrs King's voice on the Sen floor - & millions who are afraid & appalled by what's happening in our country.

Elizabeth Warren‏ @SenWarren
I will not be silent while the Republicans rubber stamp an AG who will never stand up to the @POTUS when he breaks the law.

Elizabeth Warren‏ @SenWarren
I will not be silent about a nominee for AG who has made derogatory & racist comments that have no place in our justice system.

[DrScholl]

Now who is being politically correct? Who wants a safe space now?

[Confused Democrat]

Not a good look McConnell.

[The Other Castro]

This is a major win for Warren come reelection and 2020.

[The Arizonan]

Mitch McConnell is a deplorable piece of s**t. News at eleven.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

What a brave stand. We agree on little, but good work Mitch.

[Devout Centrist]

What a brave stand. We agree on little, but good work Mitch.

STUNNING AND BRAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Other Castro]

"The Senator will take her seat."

That's not going to play well.

[MT Treasurer]

I agree with him, but this will basically have no impact anyway.

[All Along The Watchtower]

party of Lincoln

[Pyro]

“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."

Sounds like Elizabeth Warren has her 2020 campaign slogan.

-Twitter User

[The Other Castro]

*Puts on 5-dimensional chess thinking cap*

What if Senate Republicans are trying to help Warren win the nomination because they think she'd be easier to beat in a general election?

[Blue3]

Saw that on TV.

It does NOT look good.

[The Other Castro]

Credit to Twitter:

[Suburbia]

Both sides do it. Look at the colleges and universities. You get shut down for saying things that hurt BLM. I'm so proud of being a centrist.

[The Other Castro]

Both sides do it. Look at the colleges and universities. You get shut down for saying things that hurt BLM. I'm so proud of being a centrist.

I really hope you are indeed a troll. It hurts to think about someone actually making a post like this and mean it.

[DrScholl]

Both sides do it. Look at the colleges and universities. You get shut down for saying things that hurt BLM. I'm so proud of being a centrist.

This is not about Black Lives Matter or the whole idiotic "both sides" argument, it's about the US Senate voting to silence an elected Senator for reading a letter. Democrats never voted to silence a Republican Senator from speaking on the floor, so there is no "both sides" angle.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Congratulations, Republicans.  You managed to tell a woman to shut up and a black person to sit in the back of the bus at the same time!  A new achievement.

[user12345]

Which Republicans did not vote to silence her?

[JA]

Which Republicans did not vote to silence her?

Question: On the Motion (Shall the Senator be Permitted to Proceed in Order?)

YEAs ---43
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Casey (D-PA)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harris (D-CA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-NM)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---50
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Gardner (R-CO)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Perdue (R-GA)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-SC)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)

Not Voting - 7
Carper (D-DE)
Coons (D-DE)
Cruz (R-TX)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Warner (D-VA)

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00058

[Rjjr77]

They should stop televising the senate, it'll stop the silly grandstanding

[Crumpets]

That "non-voting" group is such an odd assortment of Senators.

[The Other Castro]

That "non-voting" group is such an odd assortment of Senators.

Sanders and Cruz were busy debating at GW, and some other may have been busy at the time as well.

[JA]

They should stop televising the senate, it'll stop the silly grandstanding

Any notion of a decrease in transparency is completely objectionable and would serve only to benefit shady interests and politicians who'd prefer their work hidden from public view. Thus, I imagine it'd be an enormous boon for Republicans.

[publicunofficial]

The Senate just banned the words of Coretta Scott King to protect the feelings of a man it once deemed too racist to be a federal judge.