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If McCain holds out for a strong bill, Lott may have no alternative to an old-fashioned filibuster . Supporters of McCain-Feingold will probably need not just 50 votes for victory (with the tie to be broken by Al Gore) but 60 votes to invoke "cloture" and break a filibuster.
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 LAT and the NYT both include the threatened filibuster, but less prominently.
In almost all Washington movies, there's an impassioned speech echoing Jimmy Stewart's climactic filibuster in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . In Dave , the president calls a press conference to announce a full-employment program.
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.