RSSDems block GOP’s defense bill filibuster
From: The Washington Times | December 19, 2009
The Senate early Friday headed off a Republican filibuster on the final spending bill of the year, clearing the way both for the bill's passage and for the final endgame on a health care bill. Republicans had tried to drag out the debate on the $636.3 billion 2010 defense spending bill as a way of delaying a return to the health care debate, which Democrats are trying to finish by Christmas. But on a 63-33 vote that began at 1 a.m., the Senate mustered more than the 60 votes needed to end the filibuster and move to a final vote, ...
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