Eric Wigginton

Husband. Dad. Musician.

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Cloture should take 50 votes to invoke.

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@HQNewsNow Thank you for actually posting his name and image! A lot of accounts just saying Colom is the first since reconstruction. Blanche K Bruce deserves to be remembered

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@LFSchleusener You forgot Blanche K Bruce

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@USA_Polling It was Blanche K Bruce, if anyone is wondering. Really cool story. Id encourage anyone to check out his bio

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@AstroErikATC @BlueGeorgia The ultimate irony would be CHS getting nominated to the bench and Colom refusing to return his blue slip

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@jeffzeleny That Senator from reconstruction has a name and its Blanche K Bruce, also the first black Senator to serve a full term in the Senate

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@elwasson So, you gonna delete this er you just good leaving this bullshit up?

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@burgessev Also the first black Senator from Mississippi since Blanche K Bruce, the first black Senator to serve a full term in the Senate

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Yesterday was a genuine failure of Dem leadership to get bodies in the room to vote. Today was complete bad faith procedural chicanery on the part of Republicans. Big surprise that the party who invaded the capitol doesnt care about good faith governance

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Only shitty part about winter is not being able to get stoned and fish 😕

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@magi_jay Careful now. Youre going to ruin the sales of Tapper's next book

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@mattyglesias Dont forget taking part in a coup and defying congressional subpoenas

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@crampell Patriots in charge

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@White_Shadow81 @CathyYoung63 Here is the vote breakdown. Haven't gone through it myself so not sure exactly who missed or why but I believe Rs had enough people physically present to adopt the motion if they had needed them

https://t.co/fX02yoFmeC

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@MeAgainCG @ejpreston @CathyYoung63 More importantly, its about discipline, demonstrating you can get your membership to the floor to vote.

Also I wouldnt be too cynical about dems. Once they take control i would expect a proper impeachment

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@MeAgainCG @ejpreston @CathyYoung63 Dia duit my Irish brother/sister

I personally wouldve voted to refer this particular impeachment resolution to committee, but I agree in the sense that Ds should not be missing votes. If Rs want to hold a vote open for hours, make them do so.

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@ejpreston @CathyYoung63 Even if they were absent that wouldnt stop the chair from holding the vote open until Republican leadership did some arm twisting or whatever to get them to show. Dems saved them the trouble. Hopefully its just a fluke. Members need to show up for votes

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@TheOmniLiberal Love how these idiots dont mention it was a vote to refer, not on the articles, and Rs would've held the vote open til their members voted and passed the motion anyway. Its not good for Ds to miss votes and leadership bares responsibility but these are just bad faith attacks

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@ejpreston @CathyYoung63 Republicans control the chair so they decide when to cut off the vote (after minimum time) so they could've held the vote open (for hours if need be) until all their members had voted