NO, IT'S NOT MERELY A "PROCEDURAL HURDLE"

It's a FILIBUSTER! Why can't the Establishment Media get this right?

Democrats return to drawing board on Wall Street bill

Rachelle Younglai and Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON
Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:16pm EDT

(Reuters) - Democrats on Tuesday considered stripping out a controversial tax from their landmark financial-reform bill in order to win the swing votes needed to pass it in Congress.

But Democrats are now two votes short of the 60 needed to clear a Republican procedural hurdle in the Senate.