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- Gates: U.S. Not Prepared to Respond to North Korea...
- What is the point?
- U.S. Congress Cautiously Welcomes New Afghan Plan
- Democrats Agree on Budget's Outline
- Barney Frank, King of Pork
- Congress, Largest Landlord in the U.S.
- Democrats Take Knife to Obama's Budget
- Congressional Chestbeating?
- Administration launches plan to initially buy up h...
- Law Professor Who Advised Obama Says House AIG Bil...
- Feingold/Ryan unveil earmark veto plan
- Team Effort in the House to Overhaul Health Care
- What Would Happen Without Local Newspapers?
- Are earmarks really so bad?
- Hillbillies: Don't Worry
- Median Voter Theory in Action
- Lawmaker Tried to Aid Bank Partly Owned by Husband
- Steele In Hot Water Over Abortion Comments
- Senate Clears Spending After Fractious Debate
- Big Test for New Chairman
- Congress having difficulty evaluating its carbon f...
- Don’t Rely on Bush’s Signing Statements, Obama Orders
- Chinese harassed Navy Ship....
- Republicans Look for a Reliever in Kentucky
- Congress passes stopgap bill to avoid shutdown
- Senator in Search of the "Truth"
- House Passes Mortgage Bankruptcy Bill
- RNC member calls on Michael Steele to resign
- Republicans attempt to stall spending bill
- Feingold, Ryan, McCain unite to curb earmarks
- Feingold Opposes Spending Bill
- House Rep to Ban Gitmo Detainees from U.S. Soil
- Senate Debates $410 Billion '09 Spending Bill
- In Senate, Bipartisan Love of Earmarks
- Filibusters: The Senate’s Self-Inflicted Wound
- Bring on the bacon!
- Interesting videos on new Reps on Capitol Hill
- Any other Alternatives?
- Snow Cancels Pelosi's Plans
- The Phantom Filibuster
- Kansas Governor to head Department of Health and H...
- Kohl seeks 401(k) relief
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Agreed. The United States Senate must forego its "supermajoritarianism" and become an institution based on a simple majority vote. However, we have seen in the past that US Senators feel they are members of the greatest legislative body on Earth. And stated in the article by Senator Byrd, the power of the filibuster is all the separates it from the House of Representatives. Sounds a little demeaning, does it not?
Using the filibuster can, at times, come in handy. But at this point in time, of political toxicity for the GOP, can they really afford to filibuster measures aimed at mending the economy and continuing basic government functions?
Stalling spending bills for government function has the strong smell of Newt v. Bill in the late 90's, when government was shut down due to lack of any money to pay for its operations.
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