Look for the Senate within the next two or three weeks to vote on a resolution to invalidate the Federal Communications Commission's newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule change, according to a staffer for the resolution's co-sponsor, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.).

According to Dorgan's communications director, Justin Kitsch, he heard that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he would try to schedule a vote in that time frame.

The resolution will be taken up under expedited rules, which means that all Dorgan needs is 51 votes, not the 60 that would make it filibuster-proof, Kitsch added.

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