This piece shows why it's so hard to get anything passed in the Senate. But, why do we need 60 votes when Franken hasn't been seated yet? Someone should really do whatever it takes to get Ted Kennedy back to the floor, even if it means setting up intensive care in his office and wheeling him down to vote - that'd be 58 votes, 1 shy of 60% if only 99 Senators are counted. Rule check! |
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)