Saturday, April 2, 2011

Rand Paul shuts down the Senate

Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), a Tea Party favorite, 
has boxed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) into a corner. 
After a quiet day of quorum calls and speeches, Reid abruptly adjourned the upper chamber Thursday and postponed votes until Monday. According to numerous Hill staffers, Paul deserves some credit for the impasse.

Here's the back story:
On Wednesday, Paul, with little notice, attached an amendment to the small-business re-authorization bill. The amendment, which chastises President Obama for his actions in Libya, urges members to adopt the president’s own words as “the sense of the Senate.”


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