(Source: Lamar Alexander) WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 8 - Setting what U.S. Sen. Alexander (R-Tenn.) called a 'dangerous precedent' for the Senate, Senate Democrats today blocked debate on the bipartisan Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill. 'You don't start the process at the beginning and not even let the whole Senate go through the process. This is a very bad precedent and it really insults the Senate. … That's not the way we are supposed to do our jobs. We are sent here to work on behalf of the people,' Alexander said on the floor Thursday. 'I would say to my friends on the other side, if you want to have a say about nuclear waste, about national defense, about national...
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