Legislative Pileup Looms in the Senate
When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was informed that the House had taken less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that languished for a month in the Senate, his aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry. It has been that kind of year in the polarized Senate, where even popular bills and generally acceptable executive branch nominees have to traverse a time-consuming procedural thicket even if they end up, like the unemployment extension, passing with no dissenting votes. Now the tab for that snail’s pace is about to come due. While the Senate hopes...
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