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Coyotl

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3. Now a minimum wage bill can be sent to the House. The House now has to answer for not acting too.

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Fri Nov 22, 2013, 12:14 PM

Nov 2013

This is the other huge change, the House no longer gets off the hook on all the bill that have not made it past a filibuster in the Senate.

Let them either pass it or explain in Fall 2014 why a minimum wage was passed by the Dem Senate and stalled by the House!

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End to filibuster will mean fewer "free votes" for Congress [View all] phantom power Nov 2013 OP

Unfortunately the change doesn't apply to legislation n2doc Nov 2013 #1

He's starting with a hypothesis that the filibuster will be universally ended. phantom power Nov 2013 #2

Now a minimum wage bill can be sent to the House. The House now has to answer for not acting too. Coyotl Nov 2013 #3