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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) office released the final breakdown of ratios on committees last night, and what sounds like a dry piece of non-news is actually a serious win for Democrats.
After some questions about whether the undecided Minnesota race would leave committee ...
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Reid scores committee win
Political Animal —
... on this, noting that Republicans had threatened to filibuster the organizing resolution unless Democrats agreed to cap their committee advantage at +2. That obviously didn't happen. I realize all of this sounds like procedural, inside-pool, but this kind of advantage may prove important over the next couple of years. As Elana Schor explained , "This means that every time an even mildly contentious bill comes up to a vote -- or a mildly contentious nominee, for that matter -- Democrats can afford to lose one centrist member to the Republicans and still get a win."— ...
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