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The Note's Must-Reads for Friday, March 8, 2013
by Senator Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster highlighting potential threats from was anticlimactic after the rare " talking filibuster " and the tally was juggled by Paul's civil-liberties-minded liberals during a 13-hour filibuster starting Wednesday on the Senate floor
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Rand Paul Wins Applause From GOP and Liberals
nearly 13 hour live filibuster of John Brennan's He's using the filibuster the way it's meant who want to end the use of the filibuster , like Sen. Jeff Good for SenPaul-a talking filibuster to fight for an important Republican support for the filibuster signals a change in
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Rand Paul Launches Filibuster - The Talking Kind - Against John Brennanmost traditional form of filibuster - talk. In today's Washington the filibuster has evolved into a sort government. More recently, a filibuster is any time the minority Constitution. The most recent talking filibuster came from U.S. Senator
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Bobby Jindal's Advice To GOP 'Stop Being The Stupid Party'to hatch, agree, and vote on a deal to tweak filibuster rules . The filibuster technically allows the minority to engage in unlimited debate. But changing the filibuster got barely any debate at all. Then again, the
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End of the Filibuster ? No. But Maybe a Faster Senate
today. And there is an important caveat - these changes will fall short of the major reforms that Democrats like Sens. Tom Udall , D- N.M. and Jeff Merkely, D-Ore., had pushed for. The minority party will still be able to filibuster and require 60 votes on any piece legislation. But if these changes are enacted the minority party - and more importantly
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Senators Will Vote After Midnight to Fund Government, But Have Little to Show for the Year
declared this a "sad" day and blamed the liberal use of the filibuster in the operation of the Senate these days. "This least 30 percent of its time by the abuse of the filibuster . These filibusters were not to highlight important
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The Note's Must-Reads for Janurary 25th, 2011
in campaign cash—but he can't get on the ballot in his hometown. LINK SENATE: Newsweek’s Ben Adler: “ Filibuster Reform Fails in Senate ” Over at Esquire former Bush speechwriter David Frum has a sensible suggestion for President Obama
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Reid & McConnell Square Off On Health Care, Filibusters & Debt Ceiling
floor. Another area where Reid and McConnell have already found themselves at odds is on the Democrats’ push for filibuster reform . “We don’t think the Senate rules are broken. What we think is going on here is an effort to in effect try to
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Filibuster Reform Fight Unfolds In Senate
Congress, the filibuster was used to A separate filibuster reform proposal with Sens. Tom Udall , D-NM, and hold a “ talking filibuster ,” where they denounced the filibuster reform plans as “a bad
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New Congress Kicks Off Today, But Senate Not Set to Stay Around for Long
closest we expect to come to any legislative business will likely be Democratic resolutions to try to make it harder to filibuster legislation. The push is being led by Sen. Tom Udall , D-NM, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-IA. Action on the proposals would likely come late this month. The same goes for committee
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'This Week' Transcript: Roundtable 01-02-11they're about to hear of is Senator Tom Udall , a freshman from New Mexico, who to change the Senate rules to make a filibuster less effective to make the Senate work attempts to argue that -- that filibuster needs a reform, that it shouldn't votes or 60 votes, because you can filibuster an attempt to change the rules on filibustering
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Senate Majority Rules? Senator Wants Showdown on Filibuster ReformSen. Tom Udall , D-N proponent of filibuster reform , told ABC engage in a " talking filibuster ," in which attempts to filibuster than ever majority vote. Filibuster Reform : Just 51 change the filibuster rules . "But whether
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President Obama Urges Action on Unemployment Benefits, Tax CutsSenate's limited time on Don't Ask Don't Tell and Immigration. They'd rather come down to the floor to talk about filibuster rules ." Some Changes Taxpayers Can Expect If Tax Cuts Expire -The lowest tax bracket, currently 10 percent, will rise
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nullThey're about to of this senator Tom Udall a freshman from Mexico. Who will change the senate rules to make a filibuster less effective. To make the sun network yesterday attempts to argue that the that filibuster reform that that it shouldn't be a sixty Votes or sixty votes because you can filibuster . An attempt to change the rules on
people have not heard it. They're about to -- of this senator Tom Udall a freshman from Mexico. Who will lead the attempt to change the senate rules to make a filibuster less effective. To make the sun network -- -- those of us who believe that quickness and governments not good -- objective that but it will be the first big fight of this congress. Explain that a little bit more because there they're obviously an op Ed pages across the country we see today. And yesterday attempts to argue that the -- that filibuster -- reform that that it shouldn't be a sixty vote benchmark every time. Senators want to do something. It used to be -
How Would Elected Senator Cut Budget?disclose act that is a fundamental difference until there's significant campaign finance reform until there's filibuster reform . Things are gonna get better in Washington DC as you turn your TV only gonna get worse we can afford to let Karl
is a fundamental difference until there's significant campaign finance reform until there's filibuster reform . Things are gonna get better in Washington DC as you turn your TV -- -- only gonna get worse we can afford -
'The Note': Word Associationcongress is gonna do right now to try to avoid the usual filibuster rules of the senate needs sixty votes He could do reconciliation long before it was a either but in that that one man filibuster Democrats not let forget about Chief Justice Roberts
congress is gonna do right now to try to avoid the usual filibuster rules of the senate needs sixty votes He could do reconciliation with just fifty votes it is gonna spark. Something akin to a
