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Thank you Cory Booker for having Sen Warren's back. And ours.
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Booker: Warren vote 'tantamount to censure'
"In the midst of her speaking her truth, in the midst of her speaking her heart, she was stopped," Booker said. "This had to do with her constitutional duty to provide advice and consent."
Under the Senate’s “Rule 19,” senators are not allowed to “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator."
Booker noted that as a freshman senator he frequently had to preside over floor speeches including statements that made him "uncomfortable."
"I've never seen ... someone stopped form speaking from the Senate floor," he said. "There could have been many other times when that rule was used."
Booker — one of three current African-American senators — chided Republicans for not allowing Warren to finish a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King opposing Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship, which he argued many lawmakers believed was "substantive."
"This body of all bodies should respect this idea of free speech," he said. "I am so proud that Sen. Elizabeth Warren ... honored that Martin Luther King tradition."
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318431-booker-warren-vote-tantamount-to-censure
"In the midst of her speaking her truth, in the midst of her speaking her heart, she was stopped," Booker said. "This had to do with her constitutional duty to provide advice and consent."
Under the Senate’s “Rule 19,” senators are not allowed to “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator."
Booker noted that as a freshman senator he frequently had to preside over floor speeches including statements that made him "uncomfortable."
"I've never seen ... someone stopped form speaking from the Senate floor," he said. "There could have been many other times when that rule was used."
Booker — one of three current African-American senators — chided Republicans for not allowing Warren to finish a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King opposing Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship, which he argued many lawmakers believed was "substantive."
"This body of all bodies should respect this idea of free speech," he said. "I am so proud that Sen. Elizabeth Warren ... honored that Martin Luther King tradition."
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318431-booker-warren-vote-tantamount-to-censure