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I've read some items in the last few minutes suggesting hotlining could be a way to kill this quickly, without too many Republicans having to vote on it.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Need to switch parties taking control away from Putin, trump, and Barr.
5X
(3,972 posts)scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)It's political suicide.
Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)Those two have no principles.
George II
(67,782 posts)...."without objection" with a response "I object."
highplainsdem
(49,028 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)highplainsdem
(49,028 posts)Many people here and on Twitter seem to be assuming that hotlining means immediate, automatic passage.
garagedoor
(119 posts)Hotlining is the practice of bypassing regular Senate procedures and moving legislation through to a vote with little or no floor debate in an attempt to pass the legislation through the unanimous consent of all Senators.
from ACLU.org
- just for the folks who, like me at 4:10 pm, did the Evelyn Wood reading through Google to find out what Hotlining meant in this context.