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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (695697)	1/27/2013 4:11:33 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) of 1578812

Yeah, he did say he was going to minimize them. But that was when he thought the Republicans were interested in governing in a rational fashion. He has expressed his frustration with the pro forma sessions before. So it isn't like it was new. Actually, pro forma sessions are not in the Constitution. An argument can be made that a session that isn't going to do anything but block action is not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind. Like the filibuster, it is a mechanism adopted by the Senate to give the minority party a voice. Both were intended to be rare things, not the general order of business. The Republicans have been abusing the rules. Like on the filibuster. Remember how enraged the Republicans were over the way the Democrats were using it? Yet they filibustered only a small number of times that the Republicans have in any given term. How do they suppress the military vote? The voter ID objections were because it was right before a major election and there was no time to work out the inevitable kinks.

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