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To: combjelly who wrote (478539)	5/6/2009 11:16:06 PM
From: TopCat	Respond to of 1575626

"It is a fact, that the number of filibusters, or to be more precise the number of cloture votes, has increased greatly since the Republicans became the minority party." Not surprisingly, you got your "facts" wrong again. Cloture votes are used to stop a filibuster or just a debate. It takes a supermajority to effect a cloture. Recently only the Democrats have had enough votes to vote a cloture. So the recent rise in the number of cloture votes is due to the Democrats becoming a majority not the Republicans becoming a minority.