The pubes have set a modern history with all the legislation they have blocked. I would not entirely credit democrats with congress' lethargy.
I posted this a few months back (December 20, 2007). Buck missed this one.
The Republican Senate minority today filibustered an omnibus budget bill, setting a modern-day record for blocking the most legislation during a congressional session. A new report released today by the Campaign for America's Future details the 62 times conservatives have used the filibuster to block legislation (or force modification of bills) in the first session of the 110th Congress. In just the first year of this two-year Congress, their use of the filibuster in the Senate topped the previous record, reached during the entire 107th Congress.
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http://home.ourfuture.org/media/reco...ervatives.html