The Democrats are not completely running roughshod over Republicans, as the GOP did to the Democrats when they controlled Congress.
While they did not allow amendments on the Iraq debate, the Democrats gave every member of the chamber five minutes to speak on the resolution -- an unprecedented amount of debate on a nonbinding resolution, according to Thomas E. Mann, a scholar at Brookings Institution.
He said that is more than the Republicans offered Democrats when the GOP passed a resolution last spring supporting the war in Iraq.
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