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FILIBUSTER FAILS, SENATE TO VOTE ON ETI REPEAL
October 10, 2004
The video feed of C-Span 2 at Tax Update world headquarters says that the filibuster attempt on the ETI repeal has failed. This clears the last obstacle to this enormous bill. It appears there were only about 14 votes for the filibuster, if we read the tiny letters that appeared on the video feed correctly. The feed says 11 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted to continue the filibuster.
650 pages of bill text to wrestle with and start to work with. Hoo-boy.
UPDATE: On and on the Senators drone. Doesn't cloture mean debate ends? Not right away, apparently. Fortunately, we have the technology to have a silent video feed so we can listen to music while keeping an eye on them.
Senator Akaka was just showing a poster for Camel cigarettes. That was the first Tobacco ad on TV in a long time, thanks to the Senator.
UPDATE II: Cloture roll-call here.
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