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TexasTowelie

(112,167 posts)
Thu May 30, 2013, 04:46 PM May 2013

Cruz doesn't rule out filibuster on immigration bill

NEW YORK – Will Sen. Ted Cruz filibuster the immigration bill? He won’t rule out the possibility.

Cruz danced carefully around the question of whether he’ll use a senator’s biggest gun to block the legislation when asked –twice – about his intentions Wednesday night.

“What I have been doing in the course of the Judiciary Committee hearings, and what I expect to do on the floor of the Senate, is to introduce amendment to improve the bill so it actually fixes the problem,” Cruz said when I asked the first time.

The committee voted resoundingly, 13-5, to reject a Cruz amendment that would have stripped path to citizenship from the bill.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/on-immigration-sen-ted-cruz-coy-on-filibuster-option.html/ .

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Cruz doesn't rule out filibuster on immigration bill (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2013 OP
Of course he will. This asshole desperately wants to COLGATE4 May 2013 #1

COLGATE4

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1. Of course he will. This asshole desperately wants to
Thu May 30, 2013, 04:51 PM
May 2013

imitate Rand Paul's theatrical 'filibuster' which garnered such admiration from the RW crazies. Tail-Gunner Ted is about nothing so much as making himself the new King of Fools with the teabaggers and this gives him the perfect opportunity to seize Bachmann's crown.

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