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		<title>Un-democracy and the US Senate, Unemployment Insurance Edition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[56-40, or 62-36? | Yesterday, the US Senate failed to break a filibuster against extending unemployment benefits and providing aid to states. Under the undemocratic and historically accidental rules of the Senate, it takes 60 votes to end debate in the Senate. The majority mustered 56. (40 voted against ending debate, four didn&#8217;t vote.) Whatever you believe about this particular legislation, supermajority rules are no way to govern a sophisticated, diverse industrial democracy in...]]></description>
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