It should be easy to filibuster the bills proposed by Feinstein and Lautenberg.
These are some of the senate bills blocked by GOP filibusters in the last two years.
112th Congress, 2011-2012
S2230 Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012
S2204 Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act
S3414 The CyberSecurity Act
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S3364 Bring Jobs Home Act
S3369 A bill to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities
S2237 Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act
S3220 Paycheck Fairness Act
S2343 Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012
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S1723 Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011
S1660 American Jobs Act of 2011
S1323 A bill to express the sense of the Senate on shared sacrifice in resolving the budget deficit
S782 Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011
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112th Congress, 2010-2011
HR5281 The DREAM act
S3991 Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2010
S3985 Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act of 2010
S3772 Paycheck Fairness Act
S3812 Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act
S3628 Federal Election Campaign Act amendments
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S1776 Medicare Physician Fairness Act
A more complete list of filibuster actions can be found here:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/112.htm
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/111.htm
We even saw Sen. Mitch McConnell filibuster his own bill this year.
Surely we can get at least one filibuster in the US senate.
The only fly in the ointment is that Republicans have filibustered so much in the senate that Reid is now planning to change the rules in the next Senate to make it more difficult to filibuster.
He might actually require that a senator actually take the floor and talk about the bill in order to filibuster it instead of just making an objection in the senate journal.
What senator will filibuster Feinstein's bill and take the floor to talk about why???
These are some of the senate bills blocked by GOP filibusters in the last two years.
112th Congress, 2011-2012
S2230 Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012
S2204 Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act
S3414 The CyberSecurity Act
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S3364 Bring Jobs Home Act
S3369 A bill to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities
S2237 Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act
S3220 Paycheck Fairness Act
S2343 Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012
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S1723 Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011
S1660 American Jobs Act of 2011
S1323 A bill to express the sense of the Senate on shared sacrifice in resolving the budget deficit
S782 Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011
PN3 Presidential nominee
PN49 Presidential nominee
112th Congress, 2010-2011
HR5281 The DREAM act
S3991 Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2010
S3985 Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act of 2010
S3772 Paycheck Fairness Act
S3812 Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act
S3628 Federal Election Campaign Act amendments
PN1351 Presidential nominee
S1776 Medicare Physician Fairness Act
A more complete list of filibuster actions can be found here:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/112.htm
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/111.htm
We even saw Sen. Mitch McConnell filibuster his own bill this year.
Surely we can get at least one filibuster in the US senate.
The only fly in the ointment is that Republicans have filibustered so much in the senate that Reid is now planning to change the rules in the next Senate to make it more difficult to filibuster.
He might actually require that a senator actually take the floor and talk about the bill in order to filibuster it instead of just making an objection in the senate journal.
What senator will filibuster Feinstein's bill and take the floor to talk about why???
