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How to Kill the Filibuster With 51 Votes

By using, or almost using, the 'constitutional option'

By Jane Yager, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 28, 2010 3:01 PM CDT

(Newser) – The 59 or so senators growing weary of the GOP's current penchant for filibustering are increasingly looking to an option that would allow them to revamp the chamber's filibuster rules with only 51 votes—which Democrats have—rather than 67, which they most certainly don't.... Read full story »

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