Thursday, November 17, 2011

West Wing: The Stackhouse Filibuster

Connections:

  • Stackhouse issued the filibuster because he had a bill that had previously been rejected.
  • A cloture is invoked.
  • There is campaigning for a bill
  • They discuss the "markup" of a bill
  • They mention the idea of logrolling
  • A caucus would have been helpful
  • Stackhouse has incumbency
  • Rule 22 of the Senate which governs the precedence of motions in the Senate
Questions:
  • Is this much competition among Congress realistic?
  • Why was Stackhouse creating the filibuster?
  • Why did they not create a caucus?
  • How often are clotures needed?
  • How did they enforce Rule 22?

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