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EFF Statement on the Senate Failing to Advance the USA Freedom Act
- anigbrowl 12y agoDemocrats and a handful of Republicans who supported the measure fell two votes short of the 60 votes they needed to take up the legislation, which sponsors named the U.S.A. Freedom Act. I'm so sick of procedural abuse in the legislature(s). The notion that you should have to have 60 votes just to hold a debate is stupid. This sort of thing (and arguably also the vote against the Keystone XL pipeline, which has become an absurd political shibboleth for the Democrats) is a big part of why Congress currently has a 12% approval rating (or less, according to some polls).
- dang 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8627538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8627538