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Fri, 02/26/2010 - 14:13 Jesse Nankin
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Check out this article form Politico: "In the spring of 2005, I was one of the senators who banded together as the Gang of 14 to preserve the filibuster rule. We aimed to prevent the Republican majority from scrapping it on a simple majority vote, the “nuclear option.” The seven Republicans in the group agreed to vote against the nuclear option, if and when Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist called for a vote. The seven Democrats agreed to vote against their party’s filibusters, unless “extraordinary circumstances” were in play. Today, with Republicans in the minority and resorting to the filibuster nonstop, the definition of an extraordinary circumstance is: The Senate is in session..."


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