Wednesday, February 3, 2010

A New Strategy To Stall Reconciliation

Apparently the rules for reconciliation limit debate but not the offering of amendments:

Experts on Senate procedural rules, from both parties, note that such a filibuster is possible. While reconciliation rules limit debate to 20 hours, senators lack similiar constraints on amendments and could conceivably continue offering them until 60 members agree to cut the process off.

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