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An Important Civics Lesson

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March 7, 2013
The Senate has finally confirmed John Brennan as CIA director. After Rand Paul launched a nearly 13-hour, old-school talking filibuster on the Senate floor yesterday in an attempt to block the nomination, today the Senate voted 63-34 to give him to the post. Paul?s defiant stand wasn?t as cinematic or dramatic as Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But it was an important civics lesson. This is how filibusters should work.