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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: tejek5/20/2005 3:34:03 PM
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Good news for America.......another nail in the coffin of the out-of-control GOP!

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GOP Files Cloture Motion to End Debate

By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 20, 2005; 2:57 PM

The Senate's Republican majority today began a countdown to a vote that has been dubbed the "nuclear option," a decision on whether to end the ability of the chamber's minority to use filibusters to block the appointment of federal judges.

After a third day of debate on one of President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) filed a cloture motion to end the debate and put the nomination to a vote. The cloture vote, scheduled for Tuesday, would trigger a series of steps leading to the "nuclear option" -- unless a bipartisan group of moderate senators succeeds in negotiating a compromise to head it off.

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