There appears to me to be some misleading posts on the

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Telecom immunity bill. The confusing thing appears to be that there were two measure one for oversight of the eavesdropping and one was to pass the bill with no oversight. Obama voted soundly against immunity on both issues. The vote was filibuster proof so Dodd or anyone else could not cary out his plan to filibuster. Hill was nowhere to be seen

By William Branigin and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 12, 2008; 1:25 PM

The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a government eavesdropping program, decisively rejecting an amendment that would have stripped the provision from a bill to modernize an electronic surveillance law.

Senators voted 67 to 31 to shelve the amendment offered by Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.). A filibuster-proof 60 votes had been needed for the amendment to move forwardwas . <snip>

[Truth2Tell]

1. Explain "filibuster proof" please. nt

[Gman]

2. 60 votes are needed to stop a filibuster

there are more than 60 votes for this bill so it is "filibuster proof".