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From: "Carrol Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>There has *never* in the history
>of the Senate been a filibuster against a filibuster -- more or
>less definite proof that there have been no or few progressives
>in the party.
Carrol, this is just wrong. Senate Dems have continually filibustered GOP
bills since 1994 to force votes on other bills that the GOP was refusing to
allow votes on - ie. that they were filibustering. This was how the minimum
wage law was passed in 1996 and a range of other bills have been brought to
a vote.
Filibusters and couterfilibusters are now the bread-and-butter of procedure
in the US Senate. GOP Senators have been blocking votes on various Clinton
judges for years, so Dem Senators have regularly engaged in
counterfilibusters to force votes on nominations.
I know you read the paper often enough to know this, so why spread complete
falsehoods to score an ideological point?
-- Nathan Newman
