http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/17/senate-republicans-hit-time-blocking-bill-unanimously-supported.html
The Republicans insisted on a rider for the Koch Brothers.
The Senate Republicans’ obstruction has reached a point that a professor
at George Washington University and leading Senate expert, Sarah
Binder, said, “This is what parliamentary warfare looks like. I think
the filibuster of the tax extender and energy bills — both carefully
negotiated by committee leaders in a bipartisan fashion — suggests yet
another deterioration of the Senate’s legislative capacity. The
combination of Senate rules and competitive, polarized parties makes the
Senate near ungovernable.”One does not have to be a Senate expert to
know Republicans have all but ground the upper chamber’s ability to
govern to a screeching halt regardless what the issue is.
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