FOCUS | Byrd Warns Frist against 'Nuclear Option'

Kire

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Tue Dec-13-05 04:37 PM
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FOCUS | Byrd Warns Frist against 'Nuclear Option'

FOCUS | Byrd Warns Frist against 'Nuclear Option'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121305Z.shtml
"If he ever tries to exercise the nuclear option, he's going to see a
real filibuster if I'm living and able to stand on my feet or sit in my
seat," Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) said in a Senate debate with Frist
(R-Tenn.) "If the senator wants a fight, let him try it," said Byrd, the
Senate's senior Democrat. "I'm 88 years old, but I can still fight, and
fight I will for freedom of speech. I haven't been here for 47 years to
see that freedom of speech whittled away and undermined."

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guidod

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Tue Dec-13-05 04:59 PM
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1. Thanks Kire...

I really hope Frist tries it. Republicans like Frist and DeLay think that the Dems still wither away with fear when they start pounding their shoe on the podium. They're in denial about their own withering since Terri Schiavo.

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