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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Bill who wrote (673858)3/3/2005 8:32:45 AM
From: goldworldnet  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
Nuking the Filibuster
July 11, 2003

progressive.org

This bill is unlikely to pass, since it takes 67 votes to change the Senate rules.

But that might not stop the Republicans.

They are considering what they call "the nuclear option"--having Dick Cheney make a ruling from his perch as President of the Senate that filibusters are out of order for judicial nominations. If he made that ruling and 51 Senators approved, then, boom, the Republicans would have changed the whole way the Senate has traditionally operated.

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