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cellis
on April 26, 2012
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The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168
Seriously who gives a shit what the house does? It's basically a filter for the real issues in the Senate.
newbie12
on April 27, 2012
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That's exactly how the system was designed to work-- a feature, not a bug, to let hot issues simmer down before passage.
Steko
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Actually no supermajorities were not in the Senate by design.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Cloture_V...
culturestate
on April 27, 2012
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He means that the framers' idea was that the Senate should moderate the House, which is true.
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