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Topic: Senate leaders reach deal
modifying filibuster rules,
keep 60-vote hurdle |
Senate leaders reach deal
modifying filibuster rules,
keep 60-vote hurdle
Washington Post, by Paul Kane
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/24/2013 10:51:22 PM
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| The Senate approved a deal Thursday that will keep the chamber’s long-standing 60-vote threshold for halting a filibuster but streamline some of the chamber’s more cumbersome procedures. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), largely accepting the recommendations from a bipartisan team of senior senators, won broad bipartisan support for a package of reforms that will streamline operations but leave intact rules that give the minority more rights than any other legislative body in the world.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
ccyr, 1/24/2013 10:57:39 PM (No. 9137811)
Democrats finally figured out that they might not permanently control the Senate and that whatever rules were passed were just as likely to be used AGAINST them as BY them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden, 1/24/2013 11:25:21 PM (No. 9137833)
Two Amendment maximum... pay attention, folks...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cartcart, 1/25/2013 12:17:09 AM (No. 9137870)
Both parties are the same--screwing the country.
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