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The power of 41: senator McConnell fights for the filibuster.(CONGRESS)(Mitch McConnell)
MITCH MCCONNELL, the Kentucky Republican who leads his party in the Senate, has a number on his mind. It's not 51, the number of Republican senators he would need to become the Senate majority leader. It's 41. If he can count on 41 senators to vote with him on filibusters, he has a say in the country's government. If he doesn't, Senate Republicans are largely irrelevant.
"The power of 41," he says, "is the power to shape or to block." He's right. The Democrats do not have much to show for having taken control of Congress in 2006--and the main reason is that McConnell has had the votes he needs.
When they took power, the Democrats wanted to let unions ...
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