Schumer has agreed to give McConnell the same deal as Daschle got...
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Sounds great, it's clear Schumer lacks the votes to nuke the filibuster, as such he should have no issues voting on a rules package which makes nuking the filibuster require 60 votes.
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Did Tom Daschle's agreement have language on the filibuster? If not, it's not the same one as Mitch McConell's.
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He said the "same rights" that Tom Daschle had in 2001. Tom Daschle had the right to filibuster, yes.
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These people think that because their party controls exactly half the Senate and hold the single tie breaking vote that they deserve to re-litigate every political, economic, and social rule in one of the largest and the most powerful country in the world.
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Just because Tampa Bay won by 5 doesn’t mean they were the better team, it just means they won.
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This also conveniently forgets that Democrats did the exact same thing in 2003, stalling on the organizing resolution and maintaining committee control for more than a week into the new Congresshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/01/20/democratic-slow-walk/d387a952-e967-45a5-90b1-f904697ab82d/ …
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