A Compromise Plan To Stop The Filibuster Ban

From the Reuters.com website written by Thomas Ferraro titled, "Top Senate Democrat Has Plan to Stop Filibuster Ban", posted tonight at 08:59 PM ET, the article starts this way:

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said on Monday he was working on a plan to avert a Republican threat to ban any more filibusters against President Bush's judicial nominees.

Reid, a Nevada Democrat, has conferred with "about a half dozen" of the 55 Republicans in the 100-member Senate about a potential compromise, an aide said.

Among options being discussed would be to permit some of the seven nominees that were blocked by Democrats in the last Congress, then renominated by President Bush, to be confirmed. Read the rest of the story...