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Senate Votes to End Filibuster on Judge (Priscilla Owen)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ May 24, 2005 12:56pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | AP article on Yahoo.com
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"The Senate voted Tuesday to end years of delaying tactics that blocked the nomination of Priscilla Owen to a federal judgeship, the first fruit of a bipartisan agreement to break the logjam over President Bush's judicial choices.
The vote was 81-18 with opponents of the Texas Supreme Court justice falling well short of the 60 needed to continue their filibuster. A vote to confirm Owen could come as early as Tuesday.
Owen, nominated to a seat on the 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been blocked four times by Democratic filibusters in the four years since Bush first nominated her early in his first term.
But this time she benefited from an agreement reached by seven Republican and seven Democratic senators, reached Monday, that opened the way for yes-or-no votes on some of Bush's stalled nominations while protecting the future right of Democrats to use the filibuster to block nominees they feel are out of the mainstream."
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