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U.S. Senate kills the filibuster for most presidential nominees
by Ben Reilly Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:51 pm
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/breaking-senate-approves-change-filibuster-rule-after-repeated-republican-blocks?The US Senate voted on Thursday to change the rules that have enabled Republicans to block Barack Obama's nominees for top administration posts.
By 52 votes to 48, senators approved along partisan lines a measure that would ban the use of the filibuster to prevent nominees from being confirmed. In a speech in support of the measure, majority leader Harry Reid accused Republicans of blocking nominees in the pursuit of unrelated legislative goals.
"For the first time in the history of our republic, Republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent President Obama from appointing an executive team and from appointing judges," Reid said. "The need for change is so, so very obvious. It's clearly visible. It's manifest we have to do something to change things."
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