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Recursion

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19. How?

Reply to Spirochete (Reply #14)

Wed Jun 26, 2013, 09:07 AM

Jun 2013

I keep seeing that asserted by DUers but nobody has come up with a concrete explanation of what a different Majority Leader would do differently to change the rules.

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Kabuki Theatre. blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #12

If Harry Reid would do us all a favor Spirochete Jun 2013 #14

How? Recursion Jun 2013 #19

I don't know that a different one would either Spirochete Jun 2013 #22

The Texas Senate has different rules than the US Senate Recursion Jun 2013 #18

The US Senate rules are what they are because the Democratic leadership gave the GOP minority ... Faryn Balyncd Jun 2013 #20

Wonder how many here would consider those parameters to Skidmore Jun 2013 #21