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Are You Sick Of Washington Ruining Everything? Here’s An Easy And Tangible Way You Can Help Fix It.

Do you know what you have to do to filibuster in the Senate? It’s not that “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” thing where they have to keep talking until they give up. All they have to do is say they are doing it, calling for something called a cloture motion, a.k.a. “the filibuster where we…

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Adam Mordecai


We have until Jan. 21 to make sure every senator gets an earful of reasonableness. Call them by going here and tell everyone on your Facebook Wall what you did. Seriously, it takes 1 minute, as long as one level of Angry Birds, and will make all our lives better. Oh, and then share this.
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