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They had to stay at work all night. this, it turns out, the cot thing, this is the one sure fire way to get stuff done in washington. threaten to roll out the cots. democrats have threatened to roll out the cots a lot lately. back in march when jim bunning was filibustering unemployment benefits, it was roll out the cots. we'll stay all night. bunning said he would keep filibustering and nothing could stop him unless three amendments he wanted would get votes. after democrats threatened to roll out the cots, senator bunning caved. he only got one amendment voted on, it failed and then everybod...

All-nighter in the senate. so that was the threat. roll out the cots. we're going to stay you'll night. roll them out. and votes did start happening late into the night. republicans tried to go all night with that one, but they did not have the stamina. they ended up throwing in the towel around 3:00 a.m. they gave up. so again, mission accomplished, magical cot. now, pult the cots away. then earlier this month, harry reid threatened more all-nighters in the senate, this time over republicans filibustering president obama's judicial nominees. he's threatening it again. roll out the cots. we're...

In that case, mission was partially accomplished, magical cot, but now we can put the cots away. then today it happened again. democrats threatened to hold all-night votes on wall street reform. we had some initial indications of this strategy last night when we spoke to democratic senator sherrod brown of ohio then senator claire mccaskill confirmed it here on msnbc with andrea mitchell. >> we're probably tomorrow night going to stay all night and continue to do this until we break some of them free. >> i think we're going to go all night. i think we've made the decision that this is importan...

They had to stay at work all night. this, it turns out, the cot thing, this is the one sure fire way to get stuff done in washington. threaten to roll out the cots. democrats have threatened to roll out the cots a lot lately. back in march when jim bunning was filibustering unemployment benefits, it was roll out the cots. we'll stay all night. bunning said he would keep filibustering and nothing could stop him unless three amendments he wanted would get votes. after democrats threatened to roll out the cots, senator bunning caved. he only got one amendment voted on, it failed and then everybod...