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To: oldfart
actually.... uh, did you read those rules? A few hard-nosed senators can (and have in the past) balled things up pretty thoroughly.

The floor is yours.

Explain how five hard-nosed conservative senators can prevent the other 95 from getting what they want.

1,548 posted on 03/04/2008 8:31:43 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

One way is by simply placing a “hold” on a particular bill. Tom Coburn has done it on several gun control bills recently. I must admit that I haven’t read those rules as well as I could have so I suppose there are other ways to do it too. Suffice to say there are a bunch of people working there who have made it their life’s work to know those rules and to squeeze as much out of them as possible.


1,582 posted on 03/04/2008 8:38:55 PM PST by oldfart (The most dangerous man is the one who has nothing left to lose.)
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