Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled in an opinion to allow the Democrats in the evenly-split 50-50 Senate to use the reconciliation process again in fiscal year 2021, a spokesman for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Monday. The ruling potentially allows Democrats to pass President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal, dubbed the “America Jobs Plan,”…
Senate Parliamentarian Lets Democrats Use Reconciliation Process on Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
In Defense of the Filibuster
Commentary In the first few months of 2021, we have seen many American institutions (such as Dr. Seuss) go by the wayside. Could the filibuster be next? It sure seems so, at least according to many prominent Democrats and thought leaders on the left. For instance, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) thinks the filibuster…
Sen. Manchin Says Filibuster Not A ‘Jim Crow Relic’ And ‘Designed To Be Something Different’
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on March 25 said he disagrees with President Joe Biden that the filibuster is a “Jim Crow relic.” Manchin has repeatedly said he is against abolishing the filibuster and told reporters on Thursday that the chamber “was designed to be something different” and meant to be deliberative to allow senators a chance to find…
Democrats Would Be Shortsighted to Nuke the Senate Filibuster
Commentary “You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think,” then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2013 upon Senate Democrats’ invoking the “nuclear option” to prevent Senate Republicans from filibustering all lower-court judicial nominations. And so it was: In 2017, facing fierce…
Feinstein ‘Undecided’ and ‘Hesitant’ to Remove Filibuster
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that she is “undecided” about removing the Senate’s filibuster rule. Feinstein, 87, the oldest senator, told reporters on Capitol Hill that she has concerns that eliminating the legislative filibuster—which requires a threshold of 60 votes to pass major legislation—could backfire on Democrats when Republicans are back in the majority….
Biden Says He Supports Reforming Filibuster to ‘What It Used To Be’
President Joe Biden signaled for the first time Tuesday that he backs changing rather than eliminating the filibuster rule, suggesting that it should be reformed to require lawmakers to talk on the Senate floor to delay the passage of a bill. “I don’t think that you have to eliminate the filibuster,” Biden, who previously served…
Schumer: Changing, Eliminating Filibuster ‘Will Be on the Table’ if Republicans Keep Voting No
Changing or eliminating the filibuster is possible if Republicans continue opposing Democrat legislative priorities, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday. The filibuster is a 60-vote threshold in the upper chamber to end debate on a proposal and bringing it to a vote. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week called it…
Schumer: Eliminating Filibuster ‘Will Be on the Table’ if Republicans Keep Voting No
Changing or eliminating the filibuster is possible if Republicans continue to oppose Democrats’ legislative priorities, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on March 14. The filibuster is a 60-vote threshold in the upper chamber to end debate on a proposal and bring it to a vote. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on March…
Manchin Backs Filibuster, But Says ‘It Should Be Painful’ to Use
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who holds a pivotal vote in the closely split Senate as a moderate Democrat, on Sunday said that he still backs the procedural maneuver called the filibuster, but believes it “should be painful” to use. Some Democrats have proposed eliminating the filibuster to prevent Republicans from blocking President Joe Biden’s initiatives….
Left-Wing Strategists Fundraising Early to Unseat Sens. Manchin and Sinema
Founders of the progressive PAC Justice Democrats, which helped elect social-democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), have launched a new progressive PAC, No Excuses, to raise money for candidates to challenge two incumbent Democrats who favor keeping the Senate filibuster and have expressed willingness to work with Republicans. PAC co-founders Saikat Chakrabarti, Corbin Trent, and Zack Exley…
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