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katusha

(809 posts)
7. i'm drawing a blank
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 04:52 PM
Jan 2021

Iraq war?
Patriot Act?
anything?

closest example i could find:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate#George_W._Bush

In 2001, President George W. Bush was unable to obtain sufficient Democratic support for his tax cut proposals. As a result, the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 were each passed using reconciliation, which required that the tax cuts expire within the 10-year budget window to avoid violating the Byrd rule in the Senate. The status of the tax cuts would remain unresolved until the late 2012 "fiscal cliff," with a significant portion of the cuts being made permanent by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President Barack Obama.

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