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sailingaway
07-30-2011, 12:58 PM
SenRandPaul Senator Rand Paul
It seems odd that the Senate Democrat Leader would decide to filibuster his own legislation...#ky #tcot #WeThePeople bit.ly/o2ZbiZ
http://t.co/sRiFYod


Sen. Paul Statement on Democrat Filibuster of Their Own Bill

Jul 30, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Since late last night, the Senate Majority Leader has been forcing a filibuster on his own bill. Sen. Paul offered the following statement in response:

"It seems odd that the Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid would decide to filibuster his own legislation. In fact, the Senate Republican Leader offered to move the vote on this legislation up, but Democrats objected. My Senate Republican colleagues and I are here waiting in the Senate for a vote on the debt limit bill but Sen. Reid would rather delay a vote until 1:00 Sunday morning, running down the clock instead of providing real solutions and real leadership on this issue.

"I remain committed to solving this debt crisis and again offer a compromise. I am willing to give the President what he wants - to raise the debt ceiling $2.4 trillion. But there must be a long-term fix to our debt problem in the form of a Balanced Budget Amendment."


abuhatem Abu Hatem
CORRECTION: Boehner and McConnell will make a statement at 3:30 PM.
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Aratus
07-30-2011, 05:55 PM
mitch mcconnell is now taking a stance on this?

sailingaway
07-30-2011, 05:57 PM
They are clearly running out the clock so they can claim a panic necessity to 'do something.' Primary challenge for Mitch, if he plans to run.

Aratus
07-30-2011, 06:14 PM
are the Democrats trying to impell or justify an executive order with few polysci complications save for how they seek to be re-elected???
minority leader mitch mcconnell had made a few noises about giving potus a short sweet binary decision mainly untethered with few strings!