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<![CDATA[The Sanders Rule: All Bills Get Up or Down Votes]]>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-sanders-rule-all-bill_b_225342.html
What is the point of getting to 60 senators in the Democratic caucus if you can't keep the caucus together on all of the votes? Well, Bernie Sanders has the answer:
"I think that with Al Franken coming on board, you have effectively 60 Democrats in the caucus, 58 and two Independents. I think the strategy should be to say, it doesn't take 60 votes to pass a piece of legislation. It takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster. I...
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