Senate Comity Slips Away

By Emily Pierce and Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff

July 19, 2007

Though tensions between Democrats and Republicans have been festering since the beginning of the 110th Congress, this week’s Senate debate on the Iraq War has pushed the chamber to a new level of partisan acrimony, where even the most seasoned and collegial of Senate elders have abandoned traditional acts of decorum.

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