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…r Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster and use a simple majority to end a 21-day government shutdown. It traces the nuclear opti…
… contends that Democrats would likely abolish the filibuster when they regain sufficient power regardless of Republican restraint. The article ultimat…
…ltimately presents elimination of the legislative filibuster as necessary to overcome obstruction, reopen the government, and allow the elected majori…
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…controls the floor. Vance cannot force a talking filibuster. The Majority Leader controls the calendar. And right now that Majority Leader is John T…
… who has said on the record that the legislative filibuster stays intact on his watch. TOTO: Thune IS the wall. TOTO: And here's why everyth…
… Republican votes. FIFTY. It needs 60 to break a filibuster. Ten Democrats to cross over. And they won't. Because it threatens their ballot harvesti…
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…nate Republicans were considering eliminating the filibuster. He argues that doing so would lower the practical threshold for legislation from 60 vote…
…ow among Senate Republicans about eliminating the filibuster. Now, that's the rule that require that's why everything is stuck right now because it re…
…that's why the nation is stuck is because of that filibuster. But here's why this matters. It's big, big, big news. This may have been the plan the en…
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…OR THE COURT — 21 JUSTICES AND THE DEATH OF THE FILIBUSTER Source / Date: President Trump on Truth Social, citing Politico — the weekend of July 4–…
…hiding it anymore. Here's the plan. TERMINATE the filibuster. EXPAND the Supreme Court — their dream, as the President put it, of twenty-one justice…
…Party never wins another election. Terminate the filibuster in the first hour, pack the Court, add the states, and lock the door behind them. The Pr…
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…of Senate tradition? No. (02:19) He detonated the filibuster. He hit the boom button, the nuclear option. We did not write this script. Okay. Harry Re…
… to the Supreme Court. The Democrats, they try to filibuster. What does Mitch McConnell do? He walks to the Senate floor, pulls out their rule book fr…
…. Here's what they will not tell you. (07:18) The filibuster was never meant to be permanent gridlock. It was meant for debate, not delay. It was mean…
harry reidjudicial confirmations60 votesbrett kavanaughpolitical retaliationnone — political and procedural commentary defending republican use of the senate nuclear option based on prior democratic precedent2013nuclear optionOpens this sermon and jumps to your highlighted search term when transcript text is available.
- Hostile Takeover Complete 136 Obama wins: • 365 electoral votes • 53% popular vote • Democrats gain Senate seats (60 votes = filibuster-proof) • Democrats gain House seats The borrowed base strategy worked: • Infiltrated party (presented as moderate) • Hostile takeover (defeated establishment in primary ... more when we take power Judicial Filibusters: 2013: Democrats eliminate filibuster for lower court nominees (Reid) 2017: Republicans eliminate filibuster for Supreme Court nominees (Mc- Connell) Future: Complete elimination of legislative filibuster increasingly dis- cussed Each side breaks norms when
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…get-related bills to bypass the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold and pass with a simple majority — 51 votes. The rules governing what CAN go t…
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