Sunday, December 26, 2010

Democratic Senators unanmously agree to reform fillbuster rules



http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cloturefilings.jpg

The above chart shows the unprecedented abuse of the fillbuster rules of the Senate by the Republican minority. As long as the present rules remain in place there is little to no chance that bi-partisan agreement will be reached as the present rules allow a stubborn, inflexible, partisan minority to stop all legislative work in Washington DC.



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