Supermajority

California, Here We Come -- If We Don't Change Our Budget Ways

Matt Sundeen | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver


Matt Sundeen

The "change makes us California" story is intended to scare us, but like many good tales, it's blatantly untrue. Budget reforms will not transform us into the Golden State. Almost the opposite is true.

Dems Find Supermajority Hasn't Changed Balance Of Power

Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. And Paul Kane | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Senate Democrats spent their first full day holding 60 votes just as they have spent the previous 2 1/2 years without such a supermajority: scrambling...

Harry Reid: 60 Votes Doesn't Mean Anything

New York Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics


"We have 60 votes on paper," Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Wednesday in an interview. "But we cannot bulldoze anybody; it doesn't work...