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Report: Reid Short on Votes for 'Filibuster Reform'

ladisney Wrote: Nov 14, 2012 10:16 AM

Go for it Harry. As long as Republicans hold the House it shouldn't matter much. BUT once the Republicans take over the Senate in 2014, after two more rule of Obama/Reid misrule, they can use your own new rules to stuff you into the closet. Oh you'll be whining about how unfair it is that you have to live with your own creation. Do it Harry, do it.

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Report: Reid Short on Votes for 'Filibuster Reform'

An important update to this report from last week -- it appears that Harry Reid is struggling to cobble together the requisite 51 votes to nuke long-standing minority prerogatives in the Senate:

Democrats don’t have the 51 votes they need in the Senate to change filibuster rules that could make it harder for the GOP minority to wield power in the upper chamber. Lawmakers leading the charge acknowledge they remain short, but express optimism they’ll hit their goal. “I haven’t counted 51 just yet, but we’re working,” said Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), a leading...

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