Daily Roundup - Feb 17, 2016 - Judges and Legislative Power

WAPO: Reid to GOP: For the good of the country, stop your nakedly partisan obstruction - Harry Reid

Having lived through months and years of Democratic Obstructionism and the open statements that Republican Presidents should not be allowed to appoint Supremes, I find this article rather comic.

We should go back to the constitution. Advice and Consent should mean: The Senate Proposes a list of Judges to the President,  the advice portion, and the President selects one.  If the nominee is not on the list, the Senate rejects him out of hand, and points again to its list of acceptable judges.

How these judges are adjudicated is a matter of making a deal. Maybe Trump should be brought in to give a helping hand.
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This concludes the immediate response to Reid's article.  More on detail now.

Having gridlocked the Senate for years, Republicans now want to gridlock the Supreme Court with a campaign of partisan sabotage aimed at denying the president’s constitutional duty to pick nominees. 

For the past 6 years, the Senate has blocked most  Budget law (there are 14 of them each year) to force the budget to consist of only a single Omnibus bill, one which can be passed or close the government. The following is from CRS Reports published by the Senate (Reid's domain) shows what the law is, although that is completely thwarted if the Senate does not take up, or approve House money bills.

The following is a table of what has happened under Harry Reid:

Dates funded                 Bill type Short title
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Mar 26, 2013 - Sep 30, 2013 Omnibus bill Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 H.R. 933
Sep 30, 2013 - Oct 17, 2013 - United States federal government shutdown of 2013 -
Oct 17, 2013 - Jan 15, 2014 Continuing resolution Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 H.R. 2775
Jan 15, 2014 - Jan 18, 2014 Continuing resolution Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes. H.J.Res. 106
Jan 17, 2014 - Sep 30, 2014 Omnibus bill Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 H.R. 3547
Sep 19, 2014 - Dec 11, 2014 Continuing resolution Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 H.J.Res. 124
Dec 12, 2014 - Dec 13, 2014 Continuing resolution Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes. H.J.Res. 130
Dec 13, 2014 - Dec 17, 2014 Continuing resolution Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes. H.J.Res. 131
Dec 16, 2014 - Sep 30, 2015 Omnibus bill Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 H.R. 83
Sep 30, 2015 - Dec 11, 2015 Continuing resolution Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2016 H.R. 719
Dec 11, 2015 - Dec 16, 2015 Continuing resolution Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016 H.R. 2250
Dec 16, 2015 - Dec 22, 2015 Continuing resolution Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2016, and for other purposes. H.J.Res. 78
Dec 18, 2015 - Sep 30, 2016 Omnibus bill Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 H.R. 2029

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I was not able to find a complete list of House budget bills rejected/not taken up by the Senate. Hopefully some of this will be available somewhere.