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Home Front: Politix
Harkin calls for more rule changes
2013-11-23
[THEHILL] After the Senate voted to change filibuster rules Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called for more reforms.

"This has been escalating for a long period of time and it was time to stop it and that's what we did this morning," Harkin said. "Now we need to take it a step farther and change the filibuster rules on legislation."
I agree: eliminate the filibuster completely. It's an anachronism and ill-suited to our times. Let 50% + 1 be the rule, especially after the Pubs take the Senate back in 2015...
Fifty-two Democratic senators voted to limit the minority party's right to filibuster executive branch and judicial nominees. Under the old rules, 60 votes were necessary to end debate on nominees, but Democrats changed the rules to require a simple majority.
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Posted by: Au Auric   2013-11-23 20:13  

#4  Anybody ever told these morons what happened to old bolsheviks?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-11-23 15:18  

#3  We don't need no stinkin Rules

Posted by: Au Auric   2013-11-23 14:27  

#2  I'm sure it'd be even better, Tom, if you just kept the pubs out of the Senate.
Posted by: Bobby   2013-11-23 12:29  

#1  Harkin calls for more rule changes

Like pushing back election dates just like, mandated by law, Obamacare enrollment?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-11-23 10:48  

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