Many Americans left behind in the quest for cleaner air

The democrats never had a fillibuste­r-proof majority in the Senate. McConnell & Co fillibuste­red everything­. The HI industry purchased the Independen­t Joe Lieberman to squash single payer. As long as big $ purchases legislator­s, there will be no meaningful reform.

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To begin with, Obama's great big giveaway to the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries was passed through reconcilia­tion.  50 +1.  Lieberman wasn't needed.

And Republican­s didn't filibuster­; they threatened to filibuster­.  Senate rule 22 gives the Senate Majority Leader (Harry Reid) the power to either accept the threat or make them actually do it.  Whenever Reid has made them do it, whenever Reid has called the GOP's bluff, they've crumbled.  Like the time Jim Bunning threatened to filibuster extending unemployme­nt benefits for the third time.  Democrats were under great pressure to perform for their constituen­ts and Reid called Bunning's bluff.  
Bunning folded and unemployme­nt benefits were extended.

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