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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Mon Sep 30, 2013, 11:09 PM Sep 2013

So the House Republicans have JUST decided to appoint members to a conference committee...

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So the House Republicans have JUST decided to appoint members to a conference committee... (Original Post) MrScorpio Sep 2013 OP

where Democrats non teakooks will be required to give the teakooks what they want. Dawson Leery Sep 2013 #1

just Tweeted Loup Garou Sep 2013 #2

Reid: “We will not go to conference with a gun to our head.” pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #3

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)

1. where Democrats non teakooks will be required to give the teakooks what they want.

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Mon Sep 30, 2013, 11:12 PM

Sep 2013

Loup Garou

(99 posts)

2. just Tweeted

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Mon Sep 30, 2013, 11:14 PM

Sep 2013

@jamiedupree
Senate Democrats first asked for a conference on the budget resolution on April 23; GOP objected 18 times

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

3. Reid: “We will not go to conference with a gun to our head.”

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Mon Sep 30, 2013, 11:14 PM

Sep 2013

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the GOP House conference committee effort a “gambit”, and said on the Senate floor, “we will not go to conference with a gun to our head”

by CNN's Steve Almasy 8:02 PM
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/30/test-2/?hpt=hp_t1

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