Confirmation Of Obama?s Nobel Prize-Winning Fed Nominee May Hinge On Senate Filibuster Reform

As productive as the 111th Congress was at passing large, important pieces of legislation, it was also a Congress that witnessed “more procedural obstruction under both parties than at any previous time in the past century.” One of the greatest victims of Republican obstruction has been the nominations process. A whole host of President Obama’s [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/24/peter-diamond-renominated/

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