[lbo-talk] good news for unions?

Jenny Brown jbrown72073 at cs.com
Thu Oct 16 11:17:01 PDT 2008


>>/ CB: Didn't the Republican Senate majority violate the Dem's filibuster /

>>/ right on some issue in a recent Congress? /

Michael wrote:

>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:"

I'm with Thomas Geoghegan on this. I wish they had blown it up. Worst structural blockage to pro-union legislation aside from the existence of the Senate itself.

Jenny Brown



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