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If Senate Republicans tack on a Nickles amendment, Democrats might even filibuster to block McCain-Feingold, which otherwise has their unanimous support.
Only 53 senators voted to cut off a Republican filibuster, seven short of the number needed to force a vote on the bill.
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.
A sense of grateful relief that the filibuster never materialized and that the budget was finally sent to the president pervades all three papers--they seem to be as glad to be done writing about it as the senators are to be done haggling over it.
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.