Power in Numbers

A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise agreement in which seven Democrats would use their votes to prevent filibusters on three of President Bush's judicial nominees in exchange for seven Republican votes against a ban on all judicial filibusters, known as the "nuclear option."

Power in Numbers

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