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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:11 PM
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Senate Democrats Block GOP Class Action Bill
Keeping Score?

Tort Reform 0, People 1.

:-)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A337-2003Oct22.html

Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked Republican efforts to limit the amount of damages paid in class action lawsuits across the country, mustering enough votes against the bill to likely kill it for the year.

The GOP-pushed legislation would have taken most class-action lawsuits out of the hands of state courts -- which often award multimillion-dollar judgments -- and would have given jurisdiction to federal courts seen as less likely to grant such lucrative sums.

The Senate voted 59-39 -- one vote short -- on a motion aimed at breaking a Democratic filibuster.

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...but Democrats have said the bill was designed principally to hurt trial lawyers who litigate those cases and help businesses escape substantial monetary judgments for their wrongdoing.
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:12 PM
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1. Woo-Hoo! (EDITED to add the vote)
Edited on Wed Oct-22-03 05:14 PM by goobergunch
It's about time that we won a vote or two.

EDIT: Roll No. 403 Leg.

Yeas 59 Nays 39

Democrats voting in the affirmative: Bayh, Carper, Feinstein, Kohl, Lincoln, Miller, and Nelson (NE).

Republicans voting in the negative: Shelby.

Senators not voting: Edwards and Kerry.
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UnapologeticLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:18 PM
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3. So why did the motion fail?
Cloture votes require 3/5. There were 98 senators voting, and 3/5 of 98 is 58.8. So why were 59 votes insufficient? Is it 3/5 of those present or 3/5 of 100, regardless of how many senators are there for the vote?

Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:21 PM
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5. 3/5 of 100 (60) are always required for cloture
or officially, "three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn".
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UnapologeticLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:47 PM
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10. Good point
Thanks for clearing that up
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ahimsa Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:24 PM
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6. Edwards and Kerry - no votes?
That's calling it a little close, isn't it?
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:27 PM
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7. Since it's 60 votes period needed for cloture
every Democrat that voted against could have been absent and it wouldn't have mattered.

59-0 or 59-37, cloture fails either way.
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Emillereid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:26 PM
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14. What the hell's wrong with Feinstein -- I think we dems in
Kullyfornia need to find someone better -- she often votes wrong. Now this vote and her defense of the Patriot Act and I'm beginning to wonder what she's smoking.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:17 PM
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2. Nice to see Landrieu voting no--guess she finally figured out
which side her bread is buttered.

What a quaint old saying!
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Nottingham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:20 PM
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4. Whoo HOO
:bounce:
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:33 PM
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8. Excellent
A swift kick to Rove and Bush's nuts.
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frank frankly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 05:46 PM
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9. great!
:kick:
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maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:08 PM
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11. A bit off topic, but
Has anyone mentioned that Rush is being represented by the same lawyer that represented the biting perv Marv Albert. What does pigboy say now about all those nasty trial lawyers????!!!!!

I know, at this point, pointing out anal warts hypocrocy is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.

Rush's new bumper music "White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane or
"Dr. Jimmy" The Who "what is it? I'll take it..getting high, you can't beat it".
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Democat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:20 PM
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12. Good work by Daschle, but here is what is wrong with our party
Every Republican except Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., voted for the bill, along with eight Democrats.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:15 PM
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13. kick n/t
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