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Pat Toomey Urges John Fetterman Not To Kill The Filibuster
Outgoing Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey urged his Democratic replacement John Fetterman not to kill the filibuster.
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Biden Calls For Roe To Be Codified And The Filibuster Removed
President Biden made it clear where he stands on Roe by calling on Congress to federally codify the law, and remove the filibuster if it gets in the way.
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Mark Kelly Announces Support For Filibuster Change For Voting Rights
Sen. Mark Kelly’s announcement that he will support the filibuster rules change for voting rights isolates Manchin and Sinema.
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How the Dems’ Two Big Election Bills Could Save Us from a Total Meltdown
Top election reform expert Alex Tausanovitch of the Center for American Progress explained what the biggest threats to American democracy are, and how these bills would fix them.
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The Senate Must Honor The Late Harry Reid By Abolishing The Filibuster
Before he passed away, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asked the Senate to abolish the filibuster. Democrats must fulfill his request.
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Opinion: Moderates, Mainstream Media Have Their Heads in the Sand When It Comes to GOP’s Assault on America
Republicans are scary, indeed. But the moderates and mainstream media members who aid and abet them, living in denial, are just as scary, if not scarier.
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Opinion: Will “Enough Is Enough†Politics Eclipse Dems’ Futile Hopes for Bi-Partisanship?
“Folks [are] supposed to have common sense.†These are the now well-known words of Alabama’s Republican Governor Kay Ivey when she called out those hesitant or downright resistant to getting vaccinated, declaring that “it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.†It’s…
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Opinion: Sinema, SCOTUS, and the Filibuster: A Recipe for Mainstreaming Extremism
Sinema and the Supreme Court, empowered and enabled by the filibuster, have through the supposedly “democratic processes†Congress invented, extra-constitutionally, invited extremism into mainstream American politics.
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Nicolle Wallace: If Democrats Can’t End the Filibuster, the Political Wins in 2020 Will Be for Nothing
In the 6 years he was the senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell wielded his power with an iron fist. He laughed at the idea of bipartisanship. He placed radical right-wing judges in lifetime appointments. The Kentucky senator even blocked the senate from even having a vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland. McConnell…
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Mitch McConnell Spouts More Bogus Threats About Senate Filibuster Reform
Speaking to the Ruthless podcast in an episode released earlier this morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) claimed reforming the filibuster would lead to a “nuclear winter” in the Senate, hampering bipartisan coordination. “I think if they destroy the essence of the Senate, the legislative filibuster, they will find a Senate that will not function,†he…
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Trump Says Ending the Filibuster Would Be “Catastrophic” for Republicans
Former President Donald Trump said ending the filibuster would be “catastrophic” for the GOP, voicing his support as Democrats continue to face calls to scrap it entirely. “Look, he’s hanging by a thread right now with respect to the filibuster,” Trump said of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) during an interview on the podcast…
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The Controversy Over Eliminating The Filibuster Makes A Joke Of Democracy
The filibuster is another way Republicans turn reality and democracy and their heads to install a tyranny of the minority.
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Dem Sen. Martin Heinrich Calls For the Filibuster to Be Abolished or Reformed
Republicans have grown very leery about the fact that the Democrats have control of the House, Senate and White House. Mitch McConnell threw a bit of a fit the other day making demands and threats about what the Republicans would do when they’re back in power. The Democrats were able to pass their major stimulus…
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How to Fix the Filibuster Without Breaking Congress‬
The filibuster is a historical accident. Many experts believe that it is ruining Congress and hurting democracy. It allows a small political minority to run roughshod over the majority and stop things that the American people need and want. But Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says that if Democrats get rid of it, Republicans will…
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McConnell Threatens “Scorched Earth” Tactics if Democrats Get Rid of Filibuster
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has threatened to employ “scorched earth” tactics if Democrats successfully get rid of the filibuster, according to Reuters. McConnell has sought to protect the filibuster, insisting that eliminating it would amount to a power grab on the part of the Democrats. Democrats, meanwhile, are facing calls from their constituents…
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Opinion: To Save Democracy And Achieve Unity, Senate Democrats Must Kill The Filibuster
If Democrats want to save democracy and work toward unity, they must remove the obstacle of the filibuster.
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Mitch McConnell Is Terrified That Democrats Will Take Back The Senate
While speaking to reporters, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn’t hide his fear that Democrats will take back the Senate.
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Mitch McConnell Warns Democrats Not to “Vandalize” the Senate If They Win the Majority
Mitch McConnell has warned Democrats not to change any of the Senate’s rules if they win in November. He’s particularly concerned about maintaining the filibuster. The Senate Majority Leader made the remarks on the Senate floor on Thursday as it has become more and more likely Republicans will be swept from office this year. McConnell…
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Democrats Are Too Strong So Hypocrite Mitch McConnell May Gut The Filibuster
After Democrats have been dominating the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is hypocritically exploring ways to gut the filibuster.
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On Mitch McConnell’s Primary Day Harry Reid Threatens To Kill All GOP Filibusters
Harry Reid must be pretty confident about 2014, because on Tuesday, which is primary day for Mitch McConnell, he threatened to change the Senate rules again to kill GOP filibusters.
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Mitch McConnell Hatches a Plan for Revenge on Harry Reid That May Cost Him His Senate Seat
Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans have hatched a plan for revenge on Harry Reid that is toxic that it could cost the Kentucky senator his seat in November.
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Harry Reid Has Dealt a Major Blow to The Senate Republican Agenda
After allowing Republican dictators-by-committee to hold sway over a crucial portion of government for nearly five years, Majority Leader Harry Reid did what he should have done three years ago.
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Bernie Sanders Calls the Republicans Gutless For Hiding Behind ‘Filibusters’
In the polite language of the Senate, Bernie Sanders called Senate Republicans gutless for ‘filibustering’ via the 60 vote rule instead of voting and owning their unpopular positions.
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A Sniveling Mitch McConnell Begs Harry Reid Not To Use the Nuclear Option
Mitch McConnell abandoned his tough talk on Meet The Press, and went into full suck up mode. He called Harry Reid a good man, and a good majority leader while begging for no nuclear option.
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Rick Perry Takes A Very Personal Cheap Shot at Wendy Davis
Rick Perry takes it very personally what choices Wendy Davis and her mother have made and demands that all women make the same choices.
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Harry Reid Needs to Get Both a Spine and a Clue and Confront Republican Obstruction
After suffering their obstruction in the 111th and 112th Congress, one would think Reid would get a clue, and a spine, and do his job as Majority Leader and end Republican abuse of the filibuster.
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Filibuster Reform Deal Shows the Senate Isn’t Ready to Admit It has a Problem
The problem with the Senate’s new filibuster rules isn’t that they won’t be effective, but that the bipartisan agreement suggests that senators don’t even understand the problem.
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Harry Reid Wants Input on Filibuster; let’s give it to him
If Senator Reid needs more input on filibuster reform, let’s make our voices heard right now.
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Republicans Fulfill Their Destiny of Creating the Worst Congress in Nearly 70 Years
Republicans are on pace, and appear pleased, to hold the distinction as the most unproductive Congress since the 1940s, and it looks as if that was their intention all along.
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Since Democrats took control of the Senate in 2006, Republicans Have Mounted 380 Filibusters
Republicans have managed to give the public Republican rule via the filibuster, even though the public elected Democratic rule.
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Mitch McConnell Will Filibuster Anything, Including His Own Bill
Senate history may have been made today when GOP Sen Mitch McConnell attempted to filibuster his own bill on the debt ceiling. Reid called him out, ‘I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill.’
African Americans Will Be Critical to the 2012 Election, but None Will Be Elected to the Senate
President Obama looks like he’s going to be re-elected, no African Americans will be elected to the Senate in 2012, but their support will be critical in Senate elections across the country.
Jon Stewart Rips Jim Bunning’s Unemployment Benefits Filibuster
On The Daily Show last night host Jon Stewart offered his take on Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-KY) filibuster of the proposed 30 day extension of unemployment benefits. Stewart said, “You hear that unemployed people in the middle of one of the worst recession in history, no 30 day extension of benefits until we balance the entire federal budget to Jim Bunning’s liking.”
Bill Clinton Urges Obama to Fight for a Public Health Insurance Option
Yesterday former President Bill Clinton advised President Obama to stand strong when it comes to a including a single payer option in the healthcare reform bill. Clinton advised Obama not to sell the store, just to get 60 votes to get a healthcare reform bill passed.
Russ Feingold Blasts New Hampshire Senate Deal
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) used the announcement that the Democratic Gov.