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Vice President Harris supports changing the filibuster practice in the Senate in order to limit the ability of the minority party to easily block legislation, her office confirmed to Fox News Wednesday.

President Obama's nominee to be Attorney General Eric Holder's top deputy at the Justice Department crashed into a Republican roadblock in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, garnering just 50 votes, 10 short of the number needed to break a GOP-led filibuster. Dick Lugar of Indiana was the lone Republican to support the nomination. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., switched his vote at the last minute to 'no' in order to have the vote reconsidered at a later date. James Cole, a veteran Washington attorney nominated in May, had been serving in the position since late December courtesy of a presidential...

Will the Senate Filibuster "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal? Maybe. BY JOHN MCCORMACK May 28, 2010 After the House passed a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" 234 to 194 last night, the Senate will likely take up the legislation in June. GOP senators say that they're willing to filibuster the legislation, but do they have the votes? Susan Collins already voted for repeal in committee, and it's difficult to imagine Olympia Snowe voting differently from her Maine colleague. So that puts the GOP caucus at 39 votes. They'd have 40 votes to filibuster repeal if Senator Jim Webb, who...

Break out the cots. The battle lines have been drawn in the Senate for the chamber’s first all-night political brawl in more than a decade, with both sides spoiling for a fight next week over the judicial confirmation process. Senate Republicans said that their so-called “30-hour plan” — at least 30 straight hours of uninterrupted debate on judges — is set to begin sometime Wednesday, probably late in the afternoon, and carry on until nearly midnight Thursday. They’re even holding out the option of going into the wee hours of the morning Friday if their troops are up for it....

http://www.whitehouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov T H E W H I T E H O U S E N E W S WEEKLY REVIEWMarch 7, 2003In this Issue - AT THE TOP ^ Iraq ^ Medicare Reform - PRESIDENTIAL & ADMINISTRATION NEWS ^1 Moscow Treaty ^2 Senate Filibuster ^3 Powell U.N. Remarks ^4 Rumsfeld Town Meeting__________________________________________________________________~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AT THE TOP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Iraq PRESIDENT HOLDS NATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE IN THE EAST ROOM President Bush held a press conference in the East Room of the White House Thursday night. Before taking questions from reporters, the President made remarks regarding the war on terror. He said that this has...