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Big government is not simply the size of the budget, or the number of federal programs; it is the role the federal government plays in our daily lives.
We at the Lincoln Heritage Institute will not sit idly by and allow bloated bureaucracies, burdensome tax policies, a failing public education system, an out-of-control regulatory system, and a growing disregard for the rule of law to become an accepted way of life.
Our purpose, through public education, is the revitalization and preservation of our traditional political, social, commercial, and legal environment in which the only limits to achievement are individual ability and effort.
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Thank You, Senate Republicans,
for Shutting Down the Liberals |
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by John McCaslin, Inside the Beltway
Finally, something of significance – record-breaking, in fact – is being accomplished by the 110th Congress, all thanks to the Republican minority. And the Democrats are none too pleased. As Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, points out, a filibuster is a way to stop the Senate from acting – or as he specifically phrases it, “an effort to make sure the Senate does nothing.”
“You saw the movie with Jimmy Stewart, ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’ He took to the floor as a freshman senator and stood there speaking in a filibuster until he collapsed in physical exhaustion,” Mr. Durbin notes. “Well, it does not quite happen that way anymore. What happens, of course, is someone says: I am going to stop the Senate, and you are going to have to come up with 60 votes to stop me.”
Now, consider that the Democrats have 51 votes in this current Senate, while the Republicans have 49. As a result, “any time we want to move forward with a piece of legislation to which a Republican senator objects, we need their help to stop a filibuster. They know that,” the senator continues. In the entire history of the U.S. Congress, the minority party has initiated no more than 57 filibusters during any two-year period. “That is the record, 57 in two years,” Mr. Durbin confirms. Until now. Barely a few months into the second year of the current Congress, he reports that the Republicans have thus far “initiated 65 filibusters, and we are still counting.”
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