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But you could fix a good deal of the dysfunction with relatively small changes: lower the threshold for cloture and/or introduce new procedures similar to budget reconciliation which allow you to get more legislation through without facing the filibuster; stop allocating committee chairs based on seniority; reduce the power of committees in general – why did a small-state right-winger like Max
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To achieve a permanent shift to a small-state, market-centred society, it's not enough to slash state spending for the life of one parliament.
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We always have that small-state, underdog feeling, and that means you've just got to work harder, said Carney, who served as the state's lieutenant governor for eight years.
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Some of last week's hazier ideas may be dropped: and while the prime minister publicly clings to one flagship small-state policy, planned police cutbacks, don't bet against a compromise on that.
Suddenly the state is back in vogue at Number 10. But for how long? | Will Hutton 2011
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In fact, far from the small-state low-tax image that the economic right suggest they supported, as a glance at the Servile State link you've given shows, they actually supported punitive taxes on large holdings of wealth in order to ensure distribution of real property.
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An Idaho or Maine Senator is going to have a much easier time politically “selling” his vote than a large-state Senator, since the small-state Senator may not have any constituency at home to alienate.
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That they opted for one type of power over another shows how close small-state Cameronism is to Cleggism.
What is Cameronism? Part one Sayeeda Warsi 2010
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We've seen that behavior in the actions of some small-state Senators with big insurance contributors.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: I'm the Guy Who Cut Your Health Benefits. Trust Me. RJ 2010
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Rural and small-state voters were the big winners on an absolute and on a per capita basis, even though it was big states and urban areas that have delivered Congress and the White House to Democrats.
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Out went the scent of tweed and pin-stripes, one-nation Toryism and small-state solutions.
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