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adamuu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 06:41 PM
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Technical question about the filibuster
Edited on Wed Feb-17-10 06:50 PM by adamuu
There's this page
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_111_2.htm
If I count up all the columns with Question="On the cloture motion" and Result="Rejected" will the equal the number of filibusters exercised by the 41-Republican obstructionist caucus?

I guess in a more general sense, is the an official source of all the votes blocked by the filibuster, preferably in XML format?

I have an idea for a visibility project.
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 08:11 PM
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1. Is voting against cloture the same as filibuster?
Sounds pretty antiseptic for something once thought of as so dramatic.
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adamuu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 08:36 AM
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2. On Rachel Maddow last Friday there was a column graph of the filibuster tally. Where is raw data?
I froze the video. The source says http://www.ourfuture.org/ and http://www.senate.gov/
I searched http://www.ourfuture.org/ but I can't find that graph
I found roll coll votes at http://www.senate.gov/ in XML format, but I don't see how the numbers shown in the graph can be supported by the roll call votes.

I have an idea for a project, but it requires filibuster counts. Is this just something the media keeps track of on the side, or is it there official tally somewhere?
Can anyone help?
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