I was watching C-SPAN on my lunch hour a couple of days ago and they were carrying live a press availability being held by a group of Democratic Senators on the subject of the impending “Nuclear Option”. One of the Senators was Illinois’ Barack Obama.
Obama told a story about the Illinois Senate. He related how, when he was a State Senator, the Illinois Senate was strictly controlled by Republican leader James ‘Pate’ Philip, leaving the Democrats out in the cold That is, Illinois Senate rules made it impossible for the minority party to have much, if any, input in the legislative process. Obama went of to add that the situation has reversed itself with Democrats in control and that Republicans might as well stay home.
He offered this up this cautionary tale to warn against the kinds of changes many Republicans want to impose on the U.S. Senate. I’ll admit I don’t follow Illinois legislative procedural matters all that closely (but others do here and here, for example) so I can’t vouch for what Obama was saying. I just thought it interesting that he brought Illinois’ experience in to this looming battle on Capitol Hill.
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