Analysis: Republicans setting filibuster record

Swede

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Mon Mar-01-10 10:50 PM
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Analysis: Republicans setting filibuster record

The party of no,in action.

The filibuster - tool of obstruction in the U.S. Senate - is alternately blamed and praised for wilting President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Some even say it's made the nation ungovernable.

Maybe, maybe not. Obama's term still has three years to run.

More certain, however: Opposition Republicans are using the delaying tactic at a record-setting pace.

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Bitwit1234

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Mon Mar-01-10 10:59 PM
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1. what in the world would Fox be braying about if the democrats

were filibustering the republicans as much as they have done to the democrats. All hell would break loose.

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msongs

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Mon Mar-01-10 11:02 PM
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2. peoeple will keep doing things until SOMEBODY stops them. nt

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Oregone

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Mon Mar-01-10 11:15 PM
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3. Funny. I haven't noticed them use it once. They never have to

The Democrats just pre-empt them with the Filibuster excuse

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Swede

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Tue Mar-02-10 09:56 AM
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4. They're using it,all right.

"The frequency of filibusters - plus threats to use them - are measured by the number of times the upper chamber votes on cloture. Such votes test the majority's ability to hold together 60 members to break a filibuster.

In the 110th Congress of 2007-2008, with Republicans in the minority, there were a record 112 cloture votes. In the current session of Congress - the 111th - for all of 2009 and the first two months of 2010 the number already exceeds 40. The most the filibuster has been used when Democrats were in the minority was 58 times in the 106th Congress of 1999-2000."

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