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How Senator Lautenberg's Death Makes the Senate Even Less Functional (Boo-hoo!)
Yahoo! News / The Atlantic Wire ^ | June 3, 2013 | Philip Bump

Posted on 06/03/2013 5:10:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On the third-to-last day that Senator Frank Lautenberg ever voted in the Senate, he joined with 53 of his colleagues to support a compromise on new gun regulations. His vote wasn't enough. Now, Lautenberg's death makes the prospect of revisiting that issue — and a number of other Democratic priorities — substantially trickier.

Take the gun legislation. The compromise proposal, which would have expanded background checks to include gun show and online sales, was part of a package that was postponed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after the failed vote. It's expected to come back before the Senate at some future point.

The proposal's sponsor, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, has reportedly been working to secure additional Republican support for the measure. In April, the measure came six votes short of overcoming the filibuster — though one of those six votes was a procedural one by Reid. So Manchin needed five votes to ensure it would move out of the Senate....

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TOPICS: Nevada; New Jersey; West Virginia; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 113th; banglist; bho44; franklautenberg; gop; guncontrol; harryreid; joemanchin; nevada; newjersey; secondamendment; westvirginia

1 posted on 06/03/2013 5:10:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lautenberg has croaked. Say it again, and again.

Lautenberg has croaked. Savor those words.

Enjoy!


2 posted on 06/03/2013 5:13:53 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sterling analysis:

Affect of Lautenberg's death: High

The word the reporter is looking for is "Effect". And the only effect he appears to consider important is that the Senate may be less able to punish innocent citizens for crimes they didn't commit. That isn't much of a legacy.

3 posted on 06/03/2013 5:15:25 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Death Makes the Senate Even Less Functional

Which makes it the best damn thing that could happen to this country right now.

Well... not the best - but we won't get that.

4 posted on 06/03/2013 5:16:06 PM PDT by grobdriver
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lautenburg was functionally dead for about 5 years.

I wish his family comfort in this time, but New Jersey is a better place with him out of the picture.


5 posted on 06/03/2013 5:16:27 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MSM doesn’t mind at all when the GOP holds the Senate and left-wing crazy Senators prevent any business from being done whatsoever. No judicial appointments voted on, that sort of thing.


6 posted on 06/03/2013 5:16:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better Headline: US Constitution Safer with the Lautenberg Dead


7 posted on 06/03/2013 5:29:47 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Senate has be dysfunctional for several decades. FL, crook NJ, was just another fly in the ointment.


8 posted on 06/03/2013 5:31:47 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The compromise proposal, which would have expanded background checks...

Sorry Mr. Bump. This is America. We don't "compromise" our rights here.

9 posted on 06/03/2013 5:32:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: elcid1970

Lautenberg is one skunk I can’t muster any sympathy for. I hope his spawn and their spawn are crying their eyes out. I seriously doubt it but I hope for it.


10 posted on 06/03/2013 5:40:09 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Preach it, brother!


11 posted on 06/03/2013 5:41:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A nonfunctional Senate should be the goal for everyone.


12 posted on 06/03/2013 5:47:45 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lautenberg was the one who tried to ban gun shows a few years back. Any ‘compromise’ he supported would deserve defeat.


13 posted on 06/03/2013 5:49:20 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: elcid1970

I’ll enjoy it even more when I hear Harry Reid has croaked.


14 posted on 06/03/2013 5:53:41 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The New Jersey Governor may sell out and select another dem replacement. I sincerely hope not but if he does I hope that he does not go cheaply but rather soaks the feds dearly for the benefit of his state.


15 posted on 06/03/2013 5:59:17 PM PDT by HChampagne
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To: elcid1970

Saw that this morning and it put me in a great mood all day. Can’t be said often enough; the only good liberal is a dead liberal.


16 posted on 06/03/2013 6:08:00 PM PDT by Newtoidaho
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To: muir_redwoods

Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!


17 posted on 06/03/2013 6:14:11 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Newtoidaho

The only downside to LousyBurg assuming room temperature is Gov. Krispy Crisco appointing whomever is pleasing unto Obama to replace the deceased gungrabber.

Now we know why Christie & Obama had all those intimate Brokeback beachwalks from Sandy until now. Scary.


18 posted on 06/03/2013 6:21:24 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lautenberg and Functionality are mutually exclusive! I understand that the Democrats kept a mirror at his desk to check his breathing and alert Dingy Harry Reid to prod Frankie when a vote was needed.


19 posted on 06/04/2013 3:57:55 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: JoanneSD
IIRC Lautenberg ran twice for the senate, I cannot remember if he retired first time, but NJ changed the rules so he could be eligible to run the second time...of course being a democrat there was no uproar...
20 posted on 06/05/2013 8:39:55 AM PDT by JoanneSD
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