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"Cloture Closure"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm still shocked that Washingtonwire ruthlessly censored my perfectly relevant comments about their failure to cover the initial cloture vote (they instead posted a bit on immigration dove Janet Napolitano's initial reaction to the bill after a cursory half reading). After all, washingtonwire is supposed to be ahead of the curve, with their 40 washington contributors. It was my first thought when I went looking for more depth on the cloture issue. Not all wsj blogs are bad: dealjournal is relevant and intelligently written.

5/23/07, 9:24 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for clarifying, patron. One reason I come back here is I trust you to correct errors.

The take home message, I guess, is that I should calling and faxing my Senators, because there's another crucial cloture vote.

5/23/07, 11:05 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The aconstitutional 60 vote senate supermajority, which I suppose is binding to the extent ratified in each Congress, is a fantastic preventative of govt. excess (about a year ago the journal eds. were calling for Republicans to trammel it and Bill Frist was threatening to end it). why has it survived for so long (80 years or something)?

As long as we have Larry on the line, why is it that the Bird Amendment isn't unconstitutional, to the extent it binds future (is it Senates?) to its seemingly constitutional terms ("you, future senate, can only reduce taxes for 10 years) but resulted from a mere majority vote rather than the amendment process? has the constitutionality of the amendment ever been challenged, or did it have some feature which necessitates its readoption each term?

5/23/07, 2:45 PM

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