TPM Reader SR is heartened but amazed if this could really have happened …
Steve Benen touched on a sentence from a First Read report on Obama’s dinner with Republican Senators:
“[O]ne senator told us that he learned, for the first time, the actual cuts that the president has put on the table. Leadership hadn’t shared that list with them before.”
So what’s next after Rand Paul’s 13-hour-long filibuster marathon?
First the technical stuff. Once Paul yielded the floor in the wee hours of Thursday morning, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) filed cloture on John Brennan’s nomination to be director of the CIA. That sets up, at the very latest, a Saturday vote to end debate and put Brennan on the glide path to confirmation.
It could happen earlier if Paul and other objecting senators decide their concerns have been addressed. But what made the filibuster such a remarkable and rare success is that the vote might now fail if Eric Holder and the Obama administration don’t provide Paul an answer to his question by Saturday.
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