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This problem has increased markedly since the Republicans became the minority in the Senate in 2007. In the 109th Congress, from 2005 to 2007, motions to vote on cloture—the procedural manifestation of a filibuster—numbered 68. In the 110th Congress, from 2007 to 2009, that number more than doubled to 139. The current Congress is on pace to match that figure, with 67 cloture motions filed this year alone. The current Republican minority has chosen to filibuster anything and everything, subverting majority rule...
...spots in the past decade, going from 48th to 66th. Its sister name, Juanita, fell through the floor, plummeting from 792nd place to 1,002nd in the same period. Guillermo lost more than 100 spots between 1998 and 2008, sliding from No. 369 to 470. Angelica crashed from 109th place to 257th in the same stretch; Manuel has gone from 147th to 186th...
...players shaken up and replaced. Sophomore midfielder Gina Wideroff went up for a header with a Northeastern player and came down with a bloody nose; she left the game and did not return, but put on another jersey to signal her readiness to re-enter the game. In the 109th minute, senior midfielder Rachael Lau went down on a play for the ball and sat out the final ticks.BIG SHOES TO FILLHarvard has a bright future ahead, with a core of young players poised to move up and lead the team in 2009. But the season’s final...
...freshman Claire Richardson at 21:39. Freshman Jamie Olson followed soon after at 21:49, earning 53rd. Seniors Lauren Walker and Sarah Bourne were 81st and 83rd, respectively, with both finishing at 22:18. Cleaning up for the Crimson women were sophomore Caitlin Clifford (103rd), sophomore Stacy Carlson (109th), and freshman Eliza Ives (112th). Also of note was the performance of Cummins, who placed ninth in the women’s junior varsity race and clocked in at 22:24—a time that would have placed her among Harvard’s top five varsity runners...
Having spent significantly more time at work than the 109th Congress (1,967 hr. vs. 1,433), this Congress has also managed to pass more legislation. Some of those bills count as real accomplishments. Between the House and the Senate, Democrats have passed 122 substantive bills (compared with 77 by their GOP predecessors), including lobbying and ethics reform and an expansion of children's health insurance. But they've also done a lot of speechifying. The number of purely symbolic measures passed by Congress has nearly doubled...