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The Nascent Movement to End the Filibuster
Frustrated by the lack of action in Washington after a mandate for change in 2008, liberals and Democrats inside and outside of government have begun to question the Senate filibuster rule, which they...
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Democratic Insecurity? Or Just A Different Set of Interests?
Ted Strickland, the defeated Governor of Ohio, despaired yesterday that Democrats would lose the tax cut debate. Talking, unprompted, about the debate over the expiring Bush tax cuts, Strickland said...
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Thanks to Procedural Sleight-of-Hand, Obama Tax Plan Gets Bullet-Proof House...
So, my working assumption with the Bush tax cuts was that the House didn’t have the votes to overcome a motion to recommit that would attach tax cuts for the tax rates over $250,000 to any Obama plan...
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Yesterday’s Non-Nuclear Option
“Reid’s nuclear option changes rules,” the Hill headline blared! “A shocking development,” they exclaim in the first sentence! “Reid’s coup passed by a vote of 51-48,” in a rare instance of a coup...
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Reid’s Half-Solution to the Problem of Massive Senate Obstructionism
Harry Reid’s op-ed giving the inside story about the non-nuclear option he accomplished last week is good for the way it shows how Senate Republicans have worked to decay the functioning of the...
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