[lbo-talk] good news for unions?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Oct 16 10:31:53 PDT 2008


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Charles Brown wrote:


> CB: Didn't the Republican Senate majority violate the Dem's filibuster
> right on some issue in a recent Congress?

No, they threatened to -- the nuclear option they called it -- but they never did. It was over the judge issue, and it was finessed thanks to the "Gang of 14:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_14

Michael



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