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These Five Senators Know Better Than to Go Nuclear. Don’t They?

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer
May 4, 2005, Midnight

The fate of the Senate now rests in the hands of a handful of Republicans who have been great figures of the Senate, custodians of its traditions and its essence. They will soon come to a crossroads on the “nuclear” option and the filibuster.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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