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Hillary Clinton hangs back in the filibuster fight
Hillary Clinton hangs back in the Senate filibuster fight Presidential aspirations for '08 may be the reason
BENNETT ROTH, Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
May 21, 2005
Updated: Aug. 12, 2011 5:07 p.m.
WASHINGTON - When Democrats marched down the Capitol steps earlier this week in support of judicial filibusters, the star of the political party, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was only a follower.
The former first lady slipped on her sunglasses and stood near the back as congressional leaders took turns blasting Republicans for allegedly eroding minority party rights in their attempt to do away with Senate filibusters on judicial nominations.
Despite her national prominence, Clinton is keeping a low profile on filibusters, an intensely partisan issue that overshadowed other Senate business this week.
On Friday, Republicans set the final showdown in motion by calling for a vote next Tuesday to end judicial filibusters, using as a test case President Bush's nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Thoughts of higher office
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist , R-Tenn., reported to have presidential ambitions for 2008, is leading the effort to change Senate rules, a cause championed by conservatives who are the key constituency in the Republican primaries.
Presidential politics also may be a factor in Clinton's reserve, experts said, with the senator calculating that being too vocal on filibusters could hinder her recent efforts to moderate her image.
"For somebody who is spending a lot of time taking a slow walk to the middle, this is probably not an issue she felt she needed to take a stand on," said Jennifer Duffy, an expert on the Senate for the independent Cook Political Report.
Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg suggested that Democrats may not want to put Clinton out front because she could become the focus of the filibuster debate rather than the Republicans.
Her involvement could draw attention to her husband's judicial record rather than Bush's nominees.
"The minute she opens her mouth on this issue she will get accused of simply advocating for her husband and problems he had getting through his judicial nominees," Duffy said. "That does not fit the image she wants of someone who is an independent senator in her own right."
Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said that "there is no strategy to keep her away" from the filibuster debate.
And Clinton's press secretary, Philippe Reines, said the senator has often discussed her opposition to eliminating the filibuster, including at a rally sponsored by the liberal group MoveOn.org and with Senate Democrats at the Jefferson Memorial several weeks ago.
https://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Hillary-Clinton-hangs-back-in-the-filibuster-fight-1922684.php
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Hillary Clinton Voted to Filibuster Full Repeal of the Death Tax
Posted by Alexander Hendrie on Thursday, July 9th, 2015, 8:00 AM PERMALINK
As a Senator, Hillary Clinton voted to filibuster a bill to fully repeal the death tax, voting no on H.R. 8, the “Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005.”
The legislation passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 272-162, however it was blocked by Clinton and her left wing allies in the Senate on a cloture vote of 57-41. Cloture rules in the Senate set a 60 vote threshold in order to break a filibuster (an attempt to block or delay) on a piece of legislation.
Studies by the Joint Economic Committee, and the Tax Foundation have found that the Death Tax hurts economic growth, discourages saving, and hinders small business entrepreneurship. In addition, compliance costs associated with the death tax are so burdensome that they are roughly equal to the amount of revenue raised – making this tax one of the most inefficient revenue sources in the nation.
Despite this tax falling on American small businesses and families, Hillary Clinton dismissed it as a “wealth tax.”
The 2005 vote was just one of many times Hillary Clinton voted to preserve the death tax. In 2001 she voted no on a series of tax cuts that increased the death tax exemption to $3.5 million. Clinton again voted no on legislation to increase the death tax exemption in 2006 and 2008.
https://www.atr.org/hillary-clinton-voted-filibuster-full-repeal-death-tax
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Hindu Hand Jive? I knew it!!!!!
As you have the very same post in the Canada bread I shall give you here the same response as there:
More coming from the Med side. The south end emptying out. and maybe because it's Midnight there now?
Canal been stuck. The ships have schedules to try to keep.