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Senate leaders reach agreement on filibusters (chance to offer amendments if GOP shuts up)
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| 1/27/11
| Jim Abrams - ap
Posted on 01/27/2011 12:55:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON Senate leaders said Thursday they have agreed that minority Republicans would filibuster fewer bills and nominations in exchange for a promise by the Democratic majority to give them more chances to offer amendments.
The gentleman's agreement announced by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican leader Mitch McConnell was part of a package of measures to make the Senate a more workable and less contentious place. It also included support of a resolution, to be voted on later in the day, to end the practice of one senator being able to secretly block votes and a rules change that would slash by a third the number of presidential appointments that need Senate approval.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; agreement; filibusters; gop; senateleaders; spartansixdelta
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What a deal!
American held hostage..
since 2007..
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posted on
01/27/2011 12:55:50 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
Headline suggestion: GOP Suckered Again!
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posted on
01/27/2011 12:56:58 PM PST
by
DJ Frisat
(How's that change workin' out for ya, Obama voters?)
It’s as if our elected officials are hellbent on raking this nation over the coals and more, just so they can roast weinies and marshmallows at the same campfire in a bipartisan effort.
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posted on
01/27/2011 12:57:02 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
a rules change that would slash by a third the number of presidential appointments that need Senate approval. Idiots, all of them are idiots.
Watch for a whole bunch more Cass Sunsteins to ooze into Government.
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posted on
01/27/2011 12:57:29 PM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
01/27/2011 12:57:54 PM PST
by
Krodg
To: NormsRevenge
McConnell is such a little douchebag.
The rats will walk all over him on this “deal” (and everywhere else) and we’ll hear not one peep out of him.
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posted on
01/27/2011 12:58:00 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: NormsRevenge
ALTERNATE HEADLINE: GOP HAS NO LEARNING CURVE...
To: NormsRevenge
This is pathetic. Reid must have pictures of the Republican leadership with dogs.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:00:27 PM PST
by
BelegStrongbow
(St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
The General Election in 2012 and the mid-term in 2014 will be the next two opportunities and possibly the last to swing the pendulum back to doing what is best for this nation and not what is expedient to satisfy those who pave the road to a further demise as a free people and pretend to be acting in all our best interests.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:00:44 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:01:19 PM PST
by
Lou L
(The Senate without a fillibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
To: NormsRevenge
I didn’t vote for RINOs to play pattycake with the Dhimmicrats!
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:02:35 PM PST
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: NormsRevenge
Warm up the kettles...
...see tag like.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:03:52 PM PST
by
Sparticus
(Tar and feathers for the first dumbass Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
To: NormsRevenge
Anybody out there still think the 2010 election is really going to slow (even the slightest bit) the plunge into tyranny?
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:04:16 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: NormsRevenge
“The gentleman’s agreement announced by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican leader Mitch McConnell.....”
Well, I am certainly not part of that agreement.
The GOP will never learn.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:04:33 PM PST
by
Gator113
(I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
To: NormsRevenge
...in exchange for a promise... The check's in the mail, etc.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:05:31 PM PST
by
Never on my watch
(When Obama was born, the movie "The Manchurian Candidate" was in production. Coincidence?)
To: DJ Frisat
Idiots when in charge now this is the biggest FU imaginable.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:06:38 PM PST
by
boomop1
To: NormsRevenge
One more thing. ANYONE that would enter into a “gentleman’s agreement” with Harry Reid......... is an idiot.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:07:56 PM PST
by
Gator113
(I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
To: hoosierham
I didnt vote for RINOs to play pattycake with the Dhimmicrats! They are in the minority in the Senate. The senate is ruled by the majority. The democrats are in the majority.
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:08:38 PM PST
by
SeeSac
To: SeeSac
That is why the Republicans should not give up the filibuster.
Why agree to not use all your tools when the other guy wants to dominate ?
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:10:40 PM PST
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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