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In reply to the discussion: GOP warns of shutdown over filibuster [View all]xxxsdesdexxx
(213 posts)21. that my fellow Californians call or email Senators Feinstein and Boxer to ask them to support filibu
Hello and thanks for the welcome. I'd like to request that my fellow Californians call or email Senators Feinstein and Boxer to ask them to support filibuster reform.
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You do realize as always that at the 11th hour miraculously Repubs/Dems will have a deal, right?
boingboinh
Dec 2012
#32
Bring it assholes, bring it. Regardless of party affiliation, people are sick of this shit...
Rowdyboy
Nov 2012
#3
They've already shut the Senate down with their fillibusters, what else can they do?
Mr.Turnip
Nov 2012
#6
They have used the filibuster and cloture rules to shut it down for the past 4 years.
Texin
Nov 2012
#8
They're not going to cooperate no matter what we do, so we might as well go nuclear on them. n/t
backscatter712
Nov 2012
#9
Try it GOP. Shutting down government over filibuster rules? That's the strategy -- get the
Filibuster Harry
Nov 2012
#10
Cornyn calls it an abuse of power? Hah. What does he think his Repub buddies have been
Jennicut
Nov 2012
#15
that my fellow Californians call or email Senators Feinstein and Boxer to ask them to support filibu
xxxsdesdexxx
Nov 2012
#21
Senator Feinstein's response when I asked her to support filibuster reform
xxxsdesdexxx
Nov 2012
#24
List of how the Democratic Senators voted in the 112th congress on Filibuster Reform (S. Res. 10)
xxxsdesdexxx
Nov 2012
#25
let us filibuster to shut down any all bills that we do not like or we will shut it down ....
Botany
Nov 2012
#27
Sigh. If only they could do something constructive - but then they wouldn't be Republicans eom
LiberalElite
Dec 2012
#33