1.0 link 54413 <![CDATA[Expose The Obstructionists]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/expose-the-obstructionist_b_54413.html Americans elected a new Congress to get things done. But the conservative minority has chosen a strategy of obstruction in the Senate. They have used the threat of a filibuster to delay or block virtually every major initiative.

Bills with majority support -- raising the minimum wage, ethics reform, a date to remove troops from Iraq, revoking oil subsidies and putting the money into renewable energy, fulfilling the 9/11 commission recommendations on homeland security--get blocked because they can't garner...

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