Blue Dog Democrats growling at Obama's climate-change plan
In a little-noticed vote last week, the Senate moved to prohibit the passage of any climate-change legislation by a simple 50-vote majority.
Instead, the bill will require the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Twenty-six Democratic senators joined with their Republicans counterparts to pass the ruling.
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Beware of Blue Dogs, lest they be lap dogs of the corporations. The Party of Wall Street ignores traditional party bounds.