Negotiations on Filibuster ‘Over’

Collapse of Frist-Reid Talks Leaves Centrist Plan Still on Table

By Paul Kane
Roll Call Staff

May 17, 2005

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared negotiations on the fate of the judicial filibuster “over” after a late-Monday meeting with Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), leaving a handful of centrists as the only Senators trying to secure a compromise over the “nuclear” option.

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