No Hope for Dawes?

Tireless, if footsore, is Vice President Dawes in his advocacy of a majority cloture rule for the Senate. Having previously spoken in Alabama and in New Hampshire, last week he turned up in Colorado with his proposition:

"It is absurd to maintain that the original rules 8 and 9 of the Senate providing for majority cloture, which were in effect for the first 17 years of its existence, and which were abandoned only because the small membership of the Senate made them unnecessary, did not accord with...

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