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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Rare vote-a-rama slated for Senate

Politico reports:

Senate Republicans will be on the floor offering an unlimited number of amendments to the Democratic budget resolution. No, lawmakers have not come down with a very unusual case of bipartisanship.

Instead, the Senate will be conducting a rare and chaotic “vote-a-rama,” in which senators of either party can offer an unlimited amount of amendments to the budget resolution. Such a freewheeling process is peculiar to the budget resolution, which the Senate hasn’t considered for four years since one was last introduced in 2009. A third of the senators haven’t even been in the chamber long enough to experience a vote-a-rama, so this will be their first time participating in one.

It remains unclear when exactly the Senate will hold the marathon voting session. The timing is driven by remaining uncertainty about how long it will take to finish voting on the continuing resolution intended to avert a government shutdown after March 27.


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