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She is wrong, however, to lay the blame for this squarely on the doorstep of President Obama and calling for an end to the Democratic Congressional majority in 2010 and the ouster of the president in 2012. This would be no solution to our country’s problems.
Halfway through the current 111th Congress, the filibuster has already been invoked 74 times, putting it on pace to surpass the 110th Congress, which set the high mark with 139. That was more than double the mark set by the Democratic minority in the previous Congress, 68. By comparison, there...
But as badly as the rules need to be revised, there are many things standing in their way. The logistics of actually effecting a rule change are daunting. Changing Senate rules usually requires 67 votes, all but impossible to come by in the current Washington climate. The only way around...
Insisting on the CFPA will doom the cause of reform. The argument here is that reasonable people can disagree on the importance of a new consumer agency, but it's not a realistic goal, because Republicans have declared it a deal breaker. Even before the Massachusetts election, Democratic Senate leaders...
Senator Christopher Dodd, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, recently broke off negotiations with Senator Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican, a politician so committed to bipartisanship that he placed a hold on all Obama Administration appointees to extract some pork for Alabama. Now Dodd is trying to negotiate...