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still_one

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32. The Senate Democrats can do something about this
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 01:31 PM
Jan 2017

"Senate Democrats have a powerful tool at their disposal, if they choose to use it, for resisting a president who has no mandate and cannot claim to embody the popular will. That tool lies in the simple but fitting act of withholding consent. An organized effort to do so on the Senate floor can bring the body to its knees and block or severely slow down the agenda of a president who does not represent the majority of Americans.

The procedure for withholding consent is straightforward, but deploying it is tricky. For the Senate to move in a timely fashion on any order of business, it must obtain unanimous support from its members. But if a single senator objects to a consent agreement, McConnell, now majority leader, will be forced to resort to time-consuming procedural steps through the cloture process, which takes four days to confirm nominees and seven days to advance any piece of legislation — and that’s without amendment votes, each of which can be subjected to a several-day cloture process as well."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/democrats-in-congress-can-block-trumps-agenda-if-they-want-to-heres-how/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.b5d8c6dc4cc2

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The Senate Democrats can do something about this still_one Jan 2017 #32
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Well, they do some of that, although that is really the NSA's MineralMan Jan 2017 #9
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Unless Bannon is directly connected to Russia. Tatiana Jan 2017 #41
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Except for droning folks. GeorgeGist Jan 2017 #47
Boots? tazkcmo Jan 2017 #2
Yes, people. fun n serious Jan 2017 #5
And I don't mean to be mean to you! tazkcmo Jan 2017 #10
I am glad you pointed it out to me. fun n serious Jan 2017 #13
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