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Repeal the Filibuster: How the U.S. Senate has Unconstitutionally Held us Hostage for Over 200 Years
CliffordRibner.com ^ | March 23, 2017 | Clifford Ribner

Posted on 04/04/2017 8:26:13 PM PDT by tonydbaker

Check the polls for the last 10 years (at least): no single profession, nor any other group of people in America, is more universally despised than the US Congress and its members (although, thanks largely to their control over reelection variables, their constituents usually reelect almost all of them.) Their “approval” rating as a group is often in the teens and, today, is actually at one of its high-water marks – up to the low 20’s in some polls!

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: congress; constitution; filibuster; senate
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To: clive bitterman

Correct. Thornberry was the guy.


21 posted on 04/05/2017 12:31:01 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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