Reid’s Uncompromising Power Play in Senate Rankles Republicans
By JONATHAN WEISMAN, NYT
JAN. 9, 2014
WASHINGTON — With his strong-armed change to the filibuster rule and an iron-fisted control of the Senate floor, Senator Harry Reid has engaged in the greatest consolidation of congressional power since Newt Gingrich ruled the House, unleashing a bitterness that may derail efforts to extend unemployment insurance.
Mr. Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, on Thursday dismissed all proposed Republican amendments to the unemployment extension, even those drafted by Republicans who had handed Democrats a victory on Tuesday by voting to take up the bill.
“We get nowhere with dueling amendments,” Mr. Reid declared.
A Republican effort to try to reopen the amendment process failed on a party-line vote, 42 to 54, setting up a showdown next week that is likely to end in the bill’s demise, Democrats conceded.
(More here.)
JAN. 9, 2014
WASHINGTON — With his strong-armed change to the filibuster rule and an iron-fisted control of the Senate floor, Senator Harry Reid has engaged in the greatest consolidation of congressional power since Newt Gingrich ruled the House, unleashing a bitterness that may derail efforts to extend unemployment insurance.
Mr. Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, on Thursday dismissed all proposed Republican amendments to the unemployment extension, even those drafted by Republicans who had handed Democrats a victory on Tuesday by voting to take up the bill.
“We get nowhere with dueling amendments,” Mr. Reid declared.
A Republican effort to try to reopen the amendment process failed on a party-line vote, 42 to 54, setting up a showdown next week that is likely to end in the bill’s demise, Democrats conceded.
(More here.)
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2 Comments:
I only hope that Reid is still around when the Republicans are in power. I can hear the screams and shrieking.
....and you'll hear the howling and gnashing of teeth from VV editors, as well. How dare the Republicans use the power the Democrats have accumulated the majority when the Republicans are in the majority or are in the White House.
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