DADT possible vote tonight!

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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

I'd like to see a chart with the fillibuster as a percentage of Bills brought to the floor. There are many more bills put out than ever so of course there will be more fillibusters.

www.senate.gov look up the roll call votes for each session. Below is for the current Senate. Every time you see the word "cloture", that was a filibuster by the GOP (the cloture, if agreed to, is the end of filibuster). They can filibuster the Majority Leader bringing a bill to the floor (introduction), debate, and voting. Any one Senator can filibuster.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LI...menu_111_2.htm

All those guilty comments - the Senate impeached a Federal Judge yesterday.

Twenty years of comparative Senate history: http://www.senate.gov/reference/reso...comparison.pdf

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In spite of having overwhelming public support, in spite of having already passed the House, in spite of having 57 votes in favor of repealing DADT in the Senate, a number deemed by our Constitution more than sufficient to pass a bill in the Senate; due to the GOP filibuster requiring that the measure now gain 60 votes (a supermajority) to even be brought to the floor and voted upon: Don't Ask, Don't Tell has been filibustered to death, thus has failed and is done in this session of Congress.

Thanks, GOP. You obstructive hypocrites suck. You didn't even allow it to come to the floor for a vote.

Oh, yeah: and they still have to fund the Pentagon's routine business, they filibustered that, too.

WASHINGTON -- A major defense authorization bill carrying the repeal of the military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law was blocked on Thursday by Senate Republicans and one Senate Democrat after negotiations between the parties failed. A number of moderate Republicans who said they supported a repeal, including Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), voted to filibuster the measure. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined their efforts.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the prime negotiating partner of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's, voted to bring the bill forward but only after it was clear that the 60 needed to end a filibuster would not be achieved. Her vote came after she angrily roamed the Senate floor, rolling up text of the legislation and waving it around, smacking it on Sen. Dick Durbin's desk and hitting him on the arm with it. The final tally was 57 Senators in favor of moving forward, 40 opposed.