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Dr. House slayer
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FOXNews.com - Vice President Dick Cheney Talks With Sean Hannity - Sean Hannity | Alan Colmes | Hannity & ColmesHANNITY: Last question on judges. Two hundred and fourteen years, we've never had a judge that would have otherwise been approved by the Senate filibustered. We had this deal, seven Republicans, seven Democrats, that it might result in, basically, people not getting an up-or-down vote. Is that fair?
CHENEY: Well, I think we need to restore the traditional practice of the last 214 years.
HANNITY: Yes.
CHENEY: The agreement that has been made has produced some progress in the last few weeks. That is, we've gotten a number of judges through just in the last few days. If that agreement holds, and the filibuster is not used on the judicial nominations, then I think that'll be a major success, in the sense that we've returned to traditional practices there.
Traditionally, we haven't filibustered judicial appointments. Republicans haven't done it. The Democrats shouldn't do it, either. And we'll see what develops.
If they do, if they go back to sort of a systemic filibuster of judges, then we've always got the option, or the constitutional option, of...
HANNITY: Going back to it?
CHENEY: ... modifying the Senate precedents.
What an interesting little exchange.