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Several unanimous-consent requests to get the bill through the Senate were blocked by Republicans who argued that such a cap would deter smaller companies from drilling.
Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011
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Several unanimous-consent requests to get the bill through the Senate were blocked by Republicans who argued that such a cap would deter smaller companies from drilling.
Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011
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Several unanimous-consent requests to get the bill through the Senate were blocked by Republicans who argued that such a cap would deter smaller companies from drilling.
Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011
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The Oklahoma senator objected to a commonly used unanimous-consent agreement to pass the bill under emergency conditions, even if it increases the federal deficit.
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Several unanimous-consent requests to get the bill through the Senate were blocked by Republicans who argued that such a cap would deter smaller companies from drilling.
Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011
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The unanimous-consent order setting up this odd procedure stipulates that the Senate shall "meet in pro forma session only with no business conducted."
Call the Senate's bluff on recess appointments Steven G. Bradbury 2010
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Several unanimous-consent requests to get the bill through the Senate were blocked by Republicans who argued that such a cap would deter smaller companies from drilling.
Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011
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If it can't function through unanimous-consent agreements most of the time, it can't function.
The Senate as a collective action problem Ezra Klein 2010
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He apparently wants one of those unanimous-consent agreements that the GOoPers have suckered him with before.
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"You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), lead sponsor of the resolution, said after the unanimous-consent vote.
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