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[saden1]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Thanks Saden.

I was thinking of when the judicial nominees were being held up, but you are right about the 110 congress.

You actually bring up a good point with Judicial nominees in that even with full control of the senate there are times when the majority use the filibusterer to stop the president's agenda/nominees. This is a rarity because the president is smart enough not to bring a nominee or agenda to the senate floor that doesn't already have majority support.

In 110th congress one nominee was filibustered by the Democrats but cloture was successfully with 62 votes and she now sits on a federal bench. Also there are instances where the majority party lets the minority party bring a bill to the floor but some some members of the majority party don't like the bill so they choose to filibusterer it.