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This Is Why You Call the Vote

Senate Aviation and Space Subcommittee ranking member Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) questions witnesses during a hearing on May 14, 2019. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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January 13, 2022 12:20 p.m.
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Newsflash: perfidious silly person Kysten Sinema has now told a friendly reporter at Politico that she’s “weighing” or “considering” or some other chin-scratch-full but meaningless gerund that she may go to the floor of the Senate and give a speech denouncing any changes to Senate rules that will allow Democrats thin majority to do anything. This as President Biden goes to the Senate to press his case for a rule change that will allow democracy-protecting legislation to come to a vote.

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