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1. Glenn Kessler is becoming an embarrassment, making distinctions without differences.
Sun Nov 3, 2013, 02:24 PM
Nov 2013

This is hardly the only time.


This one is even worse :http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/29/has-mitch-mcconnell-blocked-the-senate-over-400-times/?wprss=rss_fact-checker&tid=pp_widget


Has Mitch McConnell ‘blocked the Senate’ over 400 times?

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By this logic, counting cloture motions is a very poor substitute for counting filibusters — and that’s why an anecdotal feeling that the Senate is snarled does not show up in the raw statistics.
In any case, the Grimes campaign made an elemental error in not understanding the difference between “filibusters” and “blocking” action in the Senate. A number of the cloture motions that Reid has filed were intended to speed things up, to suit his parliamentary preferences, rather than in response to something McConnell specifically had done.
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