Column – Should filibuster be limited or abolished?
January 10, 2013 at 6:00 pm in Alexandria Echo Press
The other day a neighbor asked me, “What’s a filibuster?”
“It’s a legislative procedure to block a proposed bill from coming up for a vote,” I said. “It’s in the news a lot lately because Republicans use it constantly.” Continue Reading
Perhaps, an executive order would be in order. About those demoratic proposals, Dennis. Where are they? No budget has ever been submitted by the democrats. Every time his majesty has run out of money to buy more votes, he accuses the republicans of taking food out of the mouths of people waiting for some midlevel jobs to open up. Voting
PRESENT is not an option for the POTUS, let’s see the democratic proposals and all the pork included in them. Bribes do work, but let’s see them in this transparent administration. No lobbyist’s need to be involved to write the bills. And hey, let’s read it before we pass the bills.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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