(Mark Schiefelbein / AP) Writing in defense of the filibuster makes no sense. Would any intelligent person advocate continuing a practice made possible by an oversight in the revision of the ...
This would be an inflection point in American government. There’s no nuking the legislative filibuster a little bit. The end run around the Senate’s long-standing requirement for 60 votes to ...
Versions of these bills passed the House two years ago but failed in the Senate, never making it to President Joe Biden’s desk because Republicans used the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to ...
If Democrats run the election table this year, he said, the 60-vote Senate filibuster rule is a goner. Democrats tried to make “exceptions” to the filibuster after they won control of a 50-50 ...
Kamala Harris is going to ‘filibuster’ for most of this debate: Tricia McLaughlin Tricia McLaughlin and Roma Daravi join 'Fox News @ Night' to discuss how former President Trump is nationally ...
Democrats still need Republican votes to reach the 60-vote threshold to get past a filibuster and pass legislation on nonfinancial matters, such as election integrity, abortion, or amnesty for ...
They will need to overcome the filibuster, a legislative hurdle that two retiring Democrats-turned-independents did not allow their party to eliminate even though it had a majority in the Senate.
[Schumer] told me that if they win, they will change the Senate in terms of the filibuster, and we would pass [the] For The People Act, which makes all the difference in the world in terms of our ...
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Nancy Pelosi says in a new interview that her party will take on the Senate’s filibuster rule in some fashion if a Democratic majority returns to the chamber next year. The California ...