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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on January 27, 2010, 11:52:07 PM

Title: an inevitable filibuster
Post by: Plane on January 27, 2010, 11:52:07 PM

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122945445 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122945445)

Political scientist Gregory Koger's new book, Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate, addresses the institutionalization of the filibuster — and describes congressional loopholes by way of which fast thinking and hard work can beat the numbers.