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neal

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Registered: 02-09-09

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WH May Bypass Filibuster on Budget

What, we need 60 votes?  Sucka! <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p><b><font size="+1">White House may seek to bypass filibuster rule in Senate</font></b> <BR> <BR>By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers  <BR> <BR> WASHINGTON — A top White House official threatened Tuesday to use a congressional rule to force some controversial proposals through the Senate by eliminating the Republicans&#39; power to block legislation. <BR> <BR>Peter Orszag, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the Obama administration would prefer not to use the budget &#34;reconciliation&#34; process that allows measures to pass the Senate on simple majority votes. <BR> <BR>--snip-- <BR> <BR>There is plenty of historical precedent of using it by both parties, including <font size="+1"><font color="ff0000">Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, who used it force through big tax cuts.</font></font> <BR> <BR>&#34;Pretty much every major piece of budget legislation going back to April 1981, April &#39;82, April 1990, April 1993, the 1990 act, the 2001 tax legislation, they were all done through reconciliation. Yet somehow this is being presented as an unusual thing,&#34; Orszag said. <BR> <BR>&#34;The historical norm as opposed to the exception is for a major piece of budget legislation to move through reconciliation.&#34; <BR> <BR>....<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/64192.html" target=_top>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/64192.ht ml</a> <BR> <BR>Learn something new everyday.