Noted for the record
Feb. 1st, 2009 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaFrom NPR on January 9, 2009:
I note this here so that when the filibuster starts (or, more likely, when the press starts talking about the "60 votes needed to pass the Senate" as if this were just a rule of nature like universal gravitation), we can point and laugh.
[Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate minority leader,] also said that he didn't think filibusters would play a role in the evolution of a stimulus deal.
I note this here so that when the filibuster starts (or, more likely, when the press starts talking about the "60 votes needed to pass the Senate" as if this were just a rule of nature like universal gravitation), we can point and laugh.
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Date: 2009-02-01 05:22 pm (UTC)