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Tue Dec-13-05 05:49 PM
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Byrd Takes Frist to School

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VIDEO: Byrd Takes Frist To School
http://www.thinkprogress.org/

Today on the floor of the Senate, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) taught Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) a lesson in constitutional law. At Byrd’s insistence, Frist was forced to admit that the so-called “right” to an up-or-down vote — what Frist calls the “Constitutional Option” — is “not in the Constitution.”

On Fox News this Sunday, Frist argued the opposite: "I think it would be against the intent of the founding fathers and our Constitution to deny Sam Alito an up or down vote on the floor of the United States Senate."

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