hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com - 12/12/2008
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Like AAA to a car stalled on the side of a darkened highway, the U.S. Senate is now looking like it will come to the rescue of the Big Three automakers.
Bailout stories filed last night and published in this morning's papers told the tale of a bill in crisis. A number of Senate Republicans ...
nytimes.com - 12/12/2008
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nytimes.com —
Senate Republicans refused to support a bill endorsed
by the White House and Congressional Democrats, raising the...
specter of a financial collapse for G.M. and Chrysler. >
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Senate Drops Automaker Bailout Bid
huffingtonpost.com - 12/10/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Senator Harry Reid is drawing a fairly bold
line in the political sand in regards to the...
ethical missteps surrounding Rod Blagojevich. On Wednesday, the Majority Leader and Sen. Dick Durbin drafted a letter -- which they subsequently urged their ...
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Reid: Blagojevich Must Go, Must Not Make Appointment
fivethirtyeight.com - 12/15/2008
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User B.R. writes in: In your discussion of
the Bayh coalition today, you used the usual 60...
vote marker as the line to break filibusters. But why is that all that folks mention? I ask because everyone (media and blogs alike) are treating the filibuster ...
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Senators, Please Think! Kill the Big Three Bailout Bill.
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... who are doing their dead-level best to squash the execrable Big Three Bailout bill that’s in front of the Senate right now, I take issue with ...
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