Finally! Scott Brown to be seated Feb 11th

scott_brownIt will only end up being nearly a month, or 23 days to be exact since Massachusetts Senator elect Scott Brown beat Martha Coakley. But according to The Hill, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) announced on Twitter that Brown will finally be seated on Februrary 11th.

Sen-elect Scott Brown will be officially sworn in on [sic] Fri, Feb 11 at 12:45pm http://bit.ly/cBXDyk

Note: The bit.ly link is to some Facebook page, that doesn’t load for me for whatever reason.

That makes for almost two full weeks for the Senate to operate at its 60-vote majority for Democrats before Brown joins, at which point the GOP will be able to sustain a filibuster.

And while Senate Democrats have agreed to not move on healthcare legislation before the end of Brown’s time in office, GOP aides have been arguing that moving forward with votes on nominations or other major legislation would jeopardize already-tense relations between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.

“If they try to push this guy through before Scott Brown is seated it would seriously jeopardize Senate relations and destroy Democrats’ last shred of credibility,” one Senate GOP aide said about the nomination of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominee Craig Becker, for instance.

“The place would melt down. A shady move like that would spark an all-out war,” the aide said. “And the outrage wouldn’t be limited to the Senate chamber. The majority of Americans oppose card-check and if Democrats cut a backroom deal to circumvent the legislative process in an effort to enact it by regulation, 2010 will make 1994 seem like a good year for their party.”

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February 2, 2010 · Filed Under Scott Brown


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