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Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:54:51 PM
Obama vents frustration at Senate delays
Dec 23 09:48 PM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed frustration with the way the Senate
does business, saying the use of delaying tactics there harms the
nation's ability to "deal with big problems in a very competitive
world."
"Other countries are going to start running circles around us," Obama said in a White House interview with PBS. "We're going to have to return to some sense that governance is more important than politics inside the Senate."
...
Obama said the use of that vote-stalling
tactic, which requires 60 votes to cut off debate, has been imposed in
an "unheard of" routine fashion. He said it's problematic regardless of
which party controls the White House and Congress, but conceded that, as president, he doesn't have much power to do anything about it.
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