Democrat Senate Passed 94% of Bills without Debate or Roll Call Vote

So this is what Dems call working with the Republican minority. No wonder libs love Castro and Chavez. They run Congress like they run their country

Democrat Senate Passed 94% of Bills without Debate or Roll Call Vote
Monday, July 28, 2008
By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer

On the Spot (CNSNews.com) - Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) dismissed Democratic claims of obstructionism and expressed outrage last week over a government report that shows the majority of bills that have passed in the Democrat-controlled Senate of the 110th Congress have done so without any debate or even a vote.

“The U.S. Senate has a nine percent approval rating, because the American people believe that much of our work is done in secret with no debate, no transparency and no accountability,” Coburn told reporters at press conference Wednesday at the Capitol.

“This report shows that the reality is worse than the public’s fears. Instead of encouraging open debate, I’m disappointed that Majority Leader Reid often chooses secrecy or demagoguery,” he added.

Coburn was referring to a non-partisan study released on June 10 by the government’s Congressional Research Service (CRS), which indicates that 855 of the 911 bills passed by the Senate of the 110th Congress have been streamlined by Democratic Party leadership with a procedural tactic known as Unanimous Consent (UC), which requires no debate or even a vote.

With the Senate’s traditional August recess about to start, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has repeatedly accused Republicans, however, and especially Coburn and DeMint, of blocking UC on legislation that he says is critical to the well-being of many Americans.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33079

Good Lord.... no wonder I dispise democrats so much. Them pulling shit like this just keeps happening over and over. They're like dictators. But what pisses me off just as much, is republicans that don't fight back, and just let them get away with it.

To me it just seems bizararre that you guys have a system that would allow this to happen. It's not right that the dems are doing it, but it's even worse that they can do it.

Noir wrote:To me it just seems bizararre that you guys have a system that would allow this to happen. It's not right that the dems are doing it, but it's even worse that they can do it.

Well we do have a two house system. What the dems sneak through in congress doesn't necessarily mean it's going to become law. It still has to go through the senate and then be signed by the President. So I guess it's not as bad as it sounds. But, it does show how sneaky dems are with what they can get away with.

This is the Dems version of the Fairness Doctrine