This past week Americans watched the U.S. senate in action, or to be more accurate, the U.S. Senate "inaction". There on national TV news was our very own Senator Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota presiding over the U.S. Senate as he called the session to order. That was easy enough since there were no other Senators present in the chamber and there was no business to conduct; hence, Dorgan declared the senate adjourned for the day. The whole thing took all of five minutes. This same procedure was replicated several days in a row over the Thanksgiving Holiday week with the express purpose to keep the senate in-session so President Bush could not make any appointments to federal offices--all of this the brain-child of Senate leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada.
This whole thing looks so childish, and coming from a legislative body of 100 grown-ups. Then, again, maybe this week of "sham sessions" produced some of the senate's finest work of the entire year. Another reason to be thankful.
- Hal Neff
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