Ladies and Gentlemen: We got her!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 20:06:16
posted by 11/16/2007 05:28:32 AM EST If you like this story.
Senator Feinstein caved to political pressure from progressives and voted for a FISA bill without any immunity provisions for the telcos. Every Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee also voted for the clean bill after an average of 175 calls per hour by constituents to Senator Reid's office according to Democracy for America.
Quoted from a Dodd campaign email:
"Retroactive immunity will however surely be introduced as an amendment to the FISA bill. If needed Senator Dodd ordain block any amendment seeking to add retroactive immunity to the underlying account. By filibustering he will force the opposition to find 60 votes to pass the furnish. It ordain be a lot more difficult for those who would enable the erosion of our Constitution to sight the 60 votes necessary to forbid immunity on its own than it would be for us to sight the 40 needed to sustain a filibuster of the account as a whole if it included immunity."
Chris Dodd really deserves credit for this unexpected turn of event since he's the one who got the ball rolling. Good things happens when you act with convictions.
For once the Democrats caved to the right people their base. I am shocked.
You can't filibuster amendments only bills in total. If you let senators block amendments nothing would ever get done quite literally. Can you imagine Jeff Sessions filibustering evyer amendment added to the last immigration bill? No he can't do that. He can only block on the final choose.. unless they use that crazy clay pigeon deal but that's a different story.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2007/11/16/52832/999
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