ON A warm June night in 2003, with the clock approaching midnight, the Senate debated an amendment to increase Medicare premiums for retired couples earning more than $150,000. On a strong bipartisan vote, an effort to kill the proposal was soundly defeated, 59-38. Then a strange thing happened. Ted Kennedy immediately put the Senate in a quorum call — the political equivalent of calling time out — and engaged Don Nickles of Oklahoma in a prolonged, professional, shouting match.Kennedy explained to the amendment’s sponsor in no uncertain terms that mean-testing...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/13/the_significance_of_039significant039_cuts_251970.html
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