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Supermajority or fili-bust-er!
Okay, so the great busting up of the filibuster is at hand but will this legislative aspiration of the Democrats be dashed? Democratic senators Tom Harkin and Jeanne Shaheen have proposed a bill that would effectively eliminate the filibuster by robbing it of it's power to hold the Senate in its vice indefinitely. Yet for all its intentions of allowing debate while not paralyzing the Senate the move to rid the filibuster requires 67 votes to pass. It's more than the 60 needed to end a filibuster and therefore unlikely to be realized.
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2 comments:
I'm sure this would probably have a sunset on it, to expire right after the mid-term winners are sworn in, just in case the Democrats become the minority...so that they can use the filibuster when they want/need to, but no one else can. Typical, hypocritical.
"Typical, hypocritical." Sure it's hypocritical in your hypothetical situation, but I find it unfair to criticize people for something they have not done or even proposed. Not to mention, the article points out that Harken proposed a similar rule change when Democrats were in the minority in 1995.
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