<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Apologies, meant for peace-discuss only.<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 2/28/10, Jenifer Cartwright <i><jencart13@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13@yahoo.com><br>Subject: [Peace] Fw: Fed up with the filibuster<br>To: "Peace List" <peace@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 4:50 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1635131645"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Please forward widely. <div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 2/26/10, Dick Durbin <i><info@dickdurbin.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><br><br><div id="yiv1439067146">
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<p>Dear Jenifer,</p>
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<td align="middle" style="text-align:center;">The unprecedented
obstructionism in the Senate today forces a rethinking and
modernization of the filibuster rule.<br><br><b>If you're as fed
up with the filibuster as I am, please sign my petition to fix
it today.</b><br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ga3.org/campaign/fedup2/esikeserljew6j8d?source=filibuster_022410"><img alt="Sign Petition" src="http://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/dickdurbin/sign_petition.gif" border="0"></a><br><strong></strong></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>It's time to end the filibuster as we know it.</p>
<p><strong>The American people are sick of process blocking
progress.</strong> They're fed up with an arbitrary tradition
that allows a minority of Senators to prevent popular,
much-needed legislation from even coming to a vote. They're
exasperated with Republicans' veiled attempts to kill meaningful
reform -- pleas for "more time" and "starting from scratch" --
which were on full display at yesterday's White House health
care summit.</p>
<p>Frankly, so am I.</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ga3.org/campaign/fedup2/esikeserljew6j8d?source=filibuster_022410">Sign my petition at FedUpWithTheFilibuster.com
today -- and show your support for filibuster reform, such as
the Harkin-Shaheen proposal, to eliminate the crippling 60-vote
requirement to overcome a filibuster.</a></strong></p>
<p>From the public option to financial reform, a few dozen
Senate Republicans have used the threat of a filibuster dozens
and dozens of times, blocking much of the sweeping change voters
demanded when they elected President Obama and strong Democratic
majorities to Congress. The right-wing obstructionists
consistently misuse and abuse the filibuster simply to score
political points, at the expense of the American people.</p>
<p>The Harkin-Shaheen proposal would continue to provide ample
time for a minority of Senators to voice their concerns about
legislation and seek changes. But it would eliminate the
permanent 60-vote cloture requirement to overcome a filibuster,
gradually reducing the necessary vote threshold as debate
continues, preventing the minority from using the procedural
tactic to obstruct progress indefinitely.</p>
<p><strong>Commonsense proposals like this would allow a simple
majority of Senators to end an obstructionist filibuster if it
has dragged on for several days or weeks.</strong> And they
would allow Congress to get back into the business of sending
popular, much-needed legislation -- like a strong health care
reform bill -- to the President's desk.</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ga3.org/campaign/fedup2/esikeserljew6j8d?source=filibuster_022410">Sign my online petition today -- and show your
support for the Harkin-Shaheen proposal or similar proposals to
eliminate the crippling 60-vote requirement to overcome a
filibuster.</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Changing the filibuster is no pipe dream.</strong> In
fact, back in the 1970s the Senate successfully amended what was
a 67-vote cloture requirement to the current 60-vote
requirement. </p>
<p>But the unprecedented obstructionism we find in the Senate
today forces another rethinking and modernization of the
filibuster rule.</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ga3.org/campaign/fedup2/esikeserljew6j8d?source=filibuster_022410">By letting your Senators know you're as fed up
with the filibuster as I am, we can change it, once
more.</a></strong></p>
<p>When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution and drafted
the initial rules of the Senate, they never intended requiring a
supermajority to pass any and all legislation. They just wanted
to be sure that Senators took time to carefully debate and
consider bills before taking votes. <strong>That's exactly what
reforms like the Harkin-Shaheen proposal will do.</strong></p>
<p>We cannot continue to allow a minority of Senators to
paralyze progress. Together we can restore majority rule and
make Congress work for the American people again.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br><img src="http://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/leahyforvermont/durbin_signature.gif" border="0"><br>Dick Durbin<br>U.S. Senator</p>
<p>P.S. After you've <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ga3.org/campaign/fedup2/esikeserljew6j8d?source=filibuster_022410"><strong>signed the petition</strong></a>, please
<strong>forward this email to everyone you know.</strong> It's
time to step up, speak out, and fix the filibuster -- once and
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