The GOP fired the Senate parliamentarian over reconciliation in a 50-50 Senate in 2001.
It was such a non-scandal that NYT's reporting on the GOP replacement was a 57-word stub on the bottom of A22.
It was such a non-scandal that NYT's reporting on the GOP replacement was a 57-word stub on the bottom of A22.
It was such a non-scandal that it appears never to have been mentioned on CSPAN, possibly the only TV outlet that could be counted on to cover such news.
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It was such a non-scandal that @joshtpm, in writing about it shortly after, genuinely asked: 'Is this a scandal?'
It was such a non-scandal that the fired parliamentarian, Robert Dove, noted in 2010 that 'various parliamentarians have been replaced over the years...when the Majority Leader was unhappy.'
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