themoderatevoice.com - 2/17/2009
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A short note on Steve Benen’s righteous indignation over at The Washington Monthly :
TIME TO REFORM THE FILIBUSTER …. One of the striking aspects of the political process on the Hill is how quickly everyone has adapted to a once-rare tactic becoming routine. Senate filibusters ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/15/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Kevin Drum raises an important point , namely
that “The filibuster was never intended to become a...
routine requirement that all legislation needs 60% of the vote in the Senate to pass.” Indeed, the filibuster was never intended at ...
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The New Filibuster
washingtonmonthly.com - 2/15/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
TIME TO REFORM THE FILIBUSTER.... One of the
striking aspects of the political process on the Hill...
is how quickly everyone has adapted to a once-rare tactic becoming routine. Senate filibusters used to be exceedingly rare -- a dramatic challenge...
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Time to reform the filibuster
huffingtonpost.com - 2/23/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Hoping for a C-SPAN spectacle of GOP obstruction,
some impatient Democrats are urging Senate Majority Leader Harry...
Reid (D-NV) to call Republicans on their filibuster bluff. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) made a plea typical of the ...
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The Myth Of The Filibuster: Dems Can't Make Republicans ...
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The debate over filibuster reform
Political Animal —
THE DEBATE OVER FILIBUSTER REFORM.... There's been some good discussion over the last several days about the Senate filibuster and whether the process should be reformed. It seems, however, that some of participants have been talking past one another. At The Moderate Voice, for example, Jazz Shaw complained about ...
Targeting the filibuster again
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... A few days ago, Jazz Shaw reported that Democrats and liberals seem suddenly interested in ending the filibuster in the Senate, or at least some of them do. Now that the Democrats have the majority, the filibuster — so important just three years ago — now is the nadir of Beltway power abuse. Steve Benen makes that argument for ...
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