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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (301705)8/29/2006 8:01:01 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1571719
 
"And how can one Senator block a bill without revealing his name?"

That actually is an interesting story. The House has rules to limit debate, the Senate doesn't. This unofficial and undocumented "rule" was instituted for efficiency reasons. Prior to it, if a senator didn't want a bill to pass, they just refused to stop debating it until it was withdrawn. This was, any senator can block a bill without tying up the senate doing nothing.
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