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Only 53 senators voted to cut off a Republican filibuster, seven short of the number needed to force a vote on the bill.
Speculation turns to whether: 1) conservative senators will be able to filibuster a post-trial censure resolution to death; and 2) Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal committed perjury when he denied peddling nasty stories about Monica Lewinsky to the press.
The second paragraph of the WP piece examines a regionally motivated disagreement over dairy subsidies that very nearly incited a last-minute, all-night filibuster.
This kind of public execution of reform would look terrible, so Lott might try to mitigate a filibuster by offering as a substitute his own phony reform bill . Think of this as a "pod" or replicate version of campaign-finance reform.
Senate leaders may eliminate the issue ad provision to overcome a promised filibuster.