The Senate, meanwhile, could amend its filibuster rules to place the burden of maintaining a filibuster on the senators behind that filibuster.
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But any attempt to filibuster is likely to encourage Republicans to eliminate the filibuster altogether.
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Moreover, the Senate changed the practice so that you don't have to actually "filibuster" to filibuster.
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"If they filibuster Neil Gorsuch, they're going to filibuster everyone that this president might propose," he said.
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Democrats could try to filibuster any change, but the filibuster could itself be nixed by a simple majority.
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The delay suggests that Democrats could attempt to filibuster Gorsuch or force Republicans to eliminate the filibuster entirely.
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In fact, the filibuster threshold used to be higher — it took 67 votes to beat a filibuster until 1975.
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"In the Senate we must enact real filibuster reform, including the return to requiring a talking filibuster," he said.
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Only a unified Democratic government—with a filibuster-proof majority or no filibuster to worry about—could entertain passing it.
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Democrats have threatened to filibuster Gorsuch's confirmation, but it remains unclear whether the party has enough votes for a filibuster.
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Senate can reach deal to maintain filibuster The problem with the Senate is that it is too easy to filibuster.
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If Democrats don't remove the filibuster, their only chance to pass major legislation is the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation process.
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One consequence of filibuster reform is that it enabled Democrats to fill seats that Republicans held open with a filibuster.
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And I don&apost see that obviously, you don&apost have the filibuster McConnell, did away with the filibuster on this.
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Consider the filibuster: In theory, the filibuster should be a forcing mechanism for bipartisanship, by requiring 60 votes in the Senate.
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" Trump continues to push for end of legislative filibuster as midterms near - Fox News: "President Trump is sick of the Senate filibuster.
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Without Democrats eliminating the filibuster for non-Supreme Court nominees, it is doubtful that anyone would have dared touched the "sacred" filibuster.
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The Democrats fake filibuster of nominations today consists of zero debate; therefore, it is time for the Democrat fake filibuster to go.
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Democratic senators could filibuster such repeal legislation, and Republicans don't have the 60 votes necessary to break that filibuster, but Republicans intent on killing the ban could simply change the Senate rules to prevent a filibuster in the first place.
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If Democrats win back the majority, he is suggesting Republicans will filibuster Clinton's Supreme Court nominees—an action that would almost certainly herald the end of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees and perhaps the end of the filibuster altogether.
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Let them filibuster, let them show the other side of that coin, let them show the double face, it&aposll make them filibuster.
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They are warning fellow Democratic senators that their party should not filibuster Gorsuch, warning it could lead to eliminating the filibuster for legislation.
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The status of the Democratic filibuster Republicans are struggling to come up with the eight Democrats needed to join them in breaking the filibuster.
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That's because, on Thursday, Democrats voted to filibuster Gorsuch's nomination, and Republicans couldn't come up with the necessary 60 votes to overcome that filibuster.
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In brief, a filibuster is a way for senators to pause the Senate's proceedings until 60 of their colleagues vote to end the filibuster.
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It's what once led senators to use the filibuster sparingly, even though the filibuster could be used to grind the Senate to a halt.
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If Democrats filibuster Judge Gorsuch, Senate Republicans could eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court fights, too, making the tactic unavailable for the next nomination.
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"I think it's 50/50 whether the Democrats filibuster," Cruz said on CBS's "Face The Nation," adding that a Democratic filibuster will not succeed.
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After Democrats attempted to filibuster the Neil Gorsuch nomination, McConnell blew up the process and got rid of the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees.
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But what makes this path different from simply abolishing the filibuster is much less consequential than what makes it the same as abolishing the filibuster.
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The movie is one of the greats and romanticizes the talking filibuster in a way that does not reflect the reality of the filibuster today.
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This would face a Senate filibuster, but some Democrats, like Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp, might support it, and McConnell might junk the filibuster altogether.
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If Democrats filibuster Gorsuch, Republicans can get rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court confirmation, and use their narrow majority to put Gorsuch on the bench.
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Republicans need 60 votes to prevent a filibuster, but the GOP only holds 85033 seats, meaning they'll need at least eight Democrats to override a filibuster.
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"If they filibuster Neil Gorsuch, they are going to filibuster everyone that this president might propose," Mr. Cornyn said on "Face the Nation," referring to Democrats.
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Now they don&apost have a filibuster when they should have saved it for Kennedy&aposs replacement they would have a filibuster right now and some power.
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But in the end, I mean, at least we don&apost have the filibuster, judicial filibuster, Sebastian Gorka, and it&aposs just right now a majority vote.
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If Democrats reclaim the Senate and Republicans attempt to filibuster Clinton's first Supreme Court nominee, the remedy will be simple: eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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He is most widely remembered today for leading the unsuccessful filibuster against the 1964 Civil Right Act, which continues to hold the record for the longest filibuster.
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They could filibuster any bill attempting to change that 50-50 split, and the Republicans would have difficulty assembling the 60 votes needed to stop the filibuster.
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The catch here is that Senate Democrats could try to filibuster this bill — Republicans only have 52 Senate seats, and they need 60 to overcome a filibuster.
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Heck, the Republican Senate majority likely loves the idea of the filibuster—what better way to oppose the Trump crazy agenda than to let Democrats filibuster it dead?
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On Tuesday, Trump called for Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster to pass a healthcare bill — although the Republicans already plan to bypass the filibuster through reconciliation.
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But precisely because Democrats forced the elimination of the filibuster when the stakes were lower — I've never been a fan of the judicial filibuster, so I'm glad Sen.
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Democrats were already planning to filibuster, and Republicans can still get around that by lowering the threshold needed to end a filibuster from 60 votes to a simple majority.
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If Republicans use the filibuster to preserve a vacancy on the Supreme Court, Democrats will likely eliminate the filibuster for all nominees, irrespective of what happens in the House.
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Senate Republicans' use of the nuclear option to thwart Democrats' filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch led many senators and observers to predict the end of the filibuster.
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Reid, shortly before retiring, said he didn't regret getting rid of the filibuster for Cabinet and appellate court nominees and predicted the filibuster would be eliminated altogether some day.
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If Trump thinks these states have too much power, then he should encourage the Republican majority in the Senate to abolish the filibuster and prevent these "majoritarian filibuster" efforts.
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From the vantage point of a president whose own nominations are subject to filibuster, Mr. Obama has come to regret his support for the Alito filibuster, his spokesman said recently.
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"Mr Ja'afari is still in a kind of delusion of trying to filibuster his way out of town, or to filibuster the opposition out of town," said a western diplomat.
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Thus, instead of requiring the majority to produce 60 affirmative votes to end a filibuster, the Senate could require the minority to produce 41 negative votes to maintain a filibuster.
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A two-thirds vote would be required to break any filibuster blocking an up-or-down vote on a rules change, but Democrats did not filibuster the Trump trial resolution.
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Getting rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees would mean that Republicans could confirm Gorsuch with a simple majority, as opposed to the 60 votes required to break a filibuster.
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The answer is the filibuster, the ancient Senate rule that permits the blocking of a vote on a Supreme Court nomination unless 60 votes can be mustered to break the filibuster.
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The filibuster rule -- which was formalized in 1917 but not used until 1919 to break a filibuster on the Treaty of Versailles(!) -- was to further the distinction between Senate and House.
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Filibuster fight Trump has called again and again for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster -- which would allow the GOP to pass almost anything it wants without a single Democratic vote.
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Many Americans are familiar with the filibuster from the classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, where a newly-minted U.S. senator uses the filibuster to fight against a crooked, backroom scheme.
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In 2013, the Senate got rid of the filibuster on appellate and trail court nominees and presidential appointees, and in 2017, Republicans got rid of the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees.
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" Filibuster: "So I have a message for Congress tonight.
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" "I just disagree with him on the legislative filibuster.
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In practice, it's complicated—Republicans could block nomination votes with a filibuster, but if Democrats had a Senate majority, they could use the "nuclear option" to overrule that filibuster with 51 votes.
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Second, in 2013 Senate Democrats eliminated the filibuster for lower-court nominees, which means judges can be confirmed with a simple majority vote, rather than the 60 required to break a filibuster.
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Which isn't quite true: the origins of the filibuster can be traced back to an 1806 rule change, but that still means the Senate survived its first 15 years without the filibuster.
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Still, the Republicans will not have enough votes to defeat a filibuster, so Trump will have to take account of the filibuster threat that Democrats will wield in making Supreme Court nominations.
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" Recently, Reid has written, "The future of our country is sacrificed at the altar of the filibuster… I am now calling on the Senate to abolish the filibuster in all its forms.
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But a Democratic filibuster of Mr. Trump's choice seems likely, which would force Republicans to confront the difficult question of jettisoning the Senate filibuster for all presidential nominees, once and for all.
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The purpose of the filibuster rule is to allow extended debate, yet when the Democrats "filibuster" President Trump's nominees, they don't even bother to take to the Senate floor to offer debate.
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The expectation that the majority might one day be in the minority, and want to keep the filibuster, also seems less compelling now that the filibuster is gone for Supreme Court nominees.
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Kamala Harris of California have said they would back changing the filibuster for legislation, so that a filibuster could be broken by a simple majority vote and not the 60 votes currently required.
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" He added, "This was a filibuster that actually accomplished something.
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Bucking his own party on the Democratic filibuster is Sen.
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The filibuster in the Senate was designed to ensure debate.
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Bernie Sanders has a plan to blow up the filibuster.
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"Donald Trump supports the ending of the filibuster," he said.
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This is not your grandfather's filibuster; it's a nuclear weapon.
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The filibuster gives one senator one and a half votes.
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Our members are counting on Democrats to filibuster this nomination.
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Most Senate bills need 23762 votes to overcome a filibuster.
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The bar had been 249 yeas to break a filibuster.
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The president intermittently demands that Senate Republicans ax the filibuster.
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That doesn't mean he's completely ruled out a filibuster, however.
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As we reported, during that filibuster, 48 people were shot.
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Tom Steyer: I will certainly advocate for scrapping the filibuster.
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And there is another situation in which the filibuster matters.
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But Democrats in the Senate would filibuster to block it.
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Otherwise, it would be vulnerable to a filibuster by Democrats.
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Democrats who will vote for Gorsuch and against filibuster Sen.
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Joe Donnelly (Indiana) Democrats who will vote against filibuster Sen.
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There are some Democrats who will worry about this filibuster.
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A filibuster occurs when that attempt to end debate fails.
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Dems will kill filibuster if that's stopping SCOTUS confirmation. 2.
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You also think the Democrats should kill the filibuster, right?
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Schumer is one of several Democratic senators vowing to filibuster.
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Democrats are vowing to filibuster the vote when that happens.
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One obvious answer is you get rid of the filibuster.
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Without the filibuster, Republicans could pursue complete repeal and replace.
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Rick Perry, but Davis' lengthy filibuster caught the nation's attention.
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Once those began to give way, the filibuster was doomed.
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The minority party can no longer filibuster designated cabinet secretaries.
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In essence, it was a way to filibuster a nominee.
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The last, the filibuster, we can and should attend to.
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Personally I oppose the Gorsuch nomination and support the filibuster.
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Time is running out for filibuster reform in the Senate.
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But he won't be in office to challenge the filibuster.
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OPINION Abolish the filibuster and the Electoral College, by Rep.
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If it goes to the floor, then I will filibuster.
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Senate Democrats are expected to filibuster to block that vote.
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But it got killed in the Senate — by a filibuster.
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You could filibuster particularly toxic bills introduced by Trump lackeys.
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"We have to do away with the filibuster," Inslee said.
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Now some Senate Democrats are ready to filibuster Gorsuch's confirmation.
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Slate notes that the filibuster turned bipartisan when Pennsylvania Sen.
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Normally, 60 votes are needed to overcome an opposition filibuster.
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Austin: Yes, I think Democrats would filibuster anything they could.
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Warren has pledged to eliminate the filibuster if she's elected.
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However, Democrats would likely filibuster the bill in the Senate.
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But Democrats appear to have secured enough votes to filibuster.
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Opponents of the filibuster say it has outlasted its utility.
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There's a filibuster-proof majority of senators -- 61 of them!
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Do senators have to keep talking in order to filibuster?
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Senators can also threaten to filibuster amendments and other motions.
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Stephen Miller was there to filibuster and hurl personal insults.
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Of course it's been pretty grossly irresponsible to filibuster it.
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But it got killed in the Senate -- by a filibuster.
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That opens the door to letting Democrats filibuster repeal efforts.
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We will be able to stop legislation with the filibuster.
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That shift left the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations untouched.
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Schumer hasn't said whether he'd seek to end the filibuster.
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If so, they should definitely get rid of the filibuster.
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So, at last, a potential point for keeping the filibuster.
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In the past, the filibuster has been used very sparingly.
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They could filibuster, but that would probably push GOP leaders to invoke the "nuclear option," meaning they'd change Senate rules to get rid of the filibuster and let Gorsuch get confirmed with 51 votes.
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The long-awaited abolition of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees is expected to go as follows: On Thursday, Democrats will deny Judge Neil Gorsuch the 60 votes he needs to overcome their filibuster.
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Schumer's predecessor Harry Reid—correctly—eliminated the filibuster for lower court and executive branch appointments, and given the way gridlock has only become more entrenched, the filibuster for the Supreme Court is equally doomed.
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Presidents, in the past, because of the existence of the filibuster, have had to take the potential need for 60 votes to overcome a filibuster into account when choosing nominees for the federal bench.
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Democrats did away with the 85033-vote filibuster for lower-court nominees when they held the majority in 2013, and Republicans followed suit by ending the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees earlier this year.
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The right to filibuster, in recent years, has been threatened by the so-called "nuclear option," a parliamentary slight-of-hand that was used to eliminate the filibuster on most judicial nominations in 2013.
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"Bernie would support reforming the current filibuster rules to maintain the talking filibuster while eventually allowing legislation like Medicare for All to pass with a simple majority," Sanders aide Josh Miller-Lewis told CNN.
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They did away with the 60-vote filibuster for lower-court nominees when they held the majority in 2013, and Republicans followed suit by ending the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees earlier this year.
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They did away with the 60-vote filibuster for lower-court nominees when they held the majority in 85033, and Republicans followed suit by ending the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees earlier this year.
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It would obviously require abolishing the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees, but that would be fairly easy to do under the same procedures that the filibuster on other judicial nominees was abolished in 2013.
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RELATED - Gorsuch path unclear; filibuster, nuclear option loom While Democrats are avoiding the combative word "filibuster" — and Republicans so far are mostly dodging the word "nuclear," both sides are engaged in a furious head count.
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" Manchin said that he is "truly and totally concerned" that, if Democrats mount a filibuster during Gorsuch's confirmation process, Republicans will change Senate rules and eliminate the filibuster, a move known as the "nuclear option.
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In 2005, a bipartisan deal headed off GOP plans to remove the filibuster barrier for lower-court nominees, but in 2013 Democrats took the step, leaving the filibuster in place only for Supreme Court justices.
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If the Democrats are able to maintain a filibuster against the confirmation of Gorsuch for some period of time, the Republicans will change the voting rules applicable to Supreme Court nominees, thereby ending the filibuster.
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Although I would like to see the filibuster on all nominations reinstated, it makes logical sense to go the other way and obliterate the filibuster on Supreme Court nominations to make the Senate precedent consistent.
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Oregon senator slams Gorsuch for 15 straight hours, but it wasn't a filibuster Oregon senator slams Gorsuch for 15 straight hours, but it wasn't a filibuster Senators like to talk, but not usually this much.
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If the Republicans do not have enough votes to break a filibuster, they could invoke the so-called nuclear option, allowing them to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees and hold a floor vote.
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The senator first mounted his filibuster at about 11:20 a.m.
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Sixty votes are needed to overcome a potential filibuster by Democrats.
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It's time to ditch the filibuster and fix our broken government .
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Democrats still have enough votes in the Senate to filibuster legislation.
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It's unclear how real the threat of a filibuster may be.
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The Democrats&apos third mistake was to filibuster Neil M. Gorsuch.
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And D's will oppose, and bring their filibuster if they can.
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The problem for Sanders is the filibuster renders his agenda moot.
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Importantly, part of that expedited process is protection from the filibuster.
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But many in his party are uneasy about abandoning the filibuster.
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Paul is talking about recapturing the magic of his 22016 filibuster.
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In exchange, Dirksen delivered enough Republican votes to end a filibuster.
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We need 60, unfortunately, because we have the ridiculous filibuster rule.
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Ms Warren has endorsed eliminating the filibuster, as has Mr Buttigieg.
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In response, Senate Republicans eliminated the filibuster on Supreme Court nominations.
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But historically, anti-filibuster sentiment has mostly come from the left.
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The 2013 filibuster change did not apply to Supreme Court justices.
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There's nothing about the filibuster in the Constitution, by the way.
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Senate Democrats say they've got enough votes to filibuster his nomination.
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Instead, its death by filibuster became the beginning of their end.
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Senate Democrats will need 41 votes to mount a successful filibuster.
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Democrats on Monday secured enough votes to effectively filibuster Gorsuch's nomination.
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However, Democrats appear to have enough votes to filibuster his nomination.
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We have to get rid of the filibuster rule right now.
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Southern Senators, all Democrats at the time, knew the filibuster worked.
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The Republican-backed rule change maintains the ability to filibuster legislation.
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Of those, four have now said they would support a filibuster.
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McConnell has been opposed to killing the filibuster rule for legislation.
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This filibuster-proof tax cut, in other words, would be permanent.
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Both parties have nixed the filibuster process in certain situations before.
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The end of the filibuster was the culmination of a long
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Thus, it's not so clear that the filibuster makes government smaller.
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Without the filibuster, Republicans wouldn't need Collins's vote to pass legislation.
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Trump's needling of GOP senators on the filibuster is nothing new.
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The spending stopgap needs 60 votes to overcome a Senate filibuster.
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About 20 minutes later, the filibuster ended at 2:11 a.m.
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Only four Democrats have said they would vote against the filibuster.
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Graham also has set his sights on restoring the judicial filibuster.
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I think he has to get rid of the filibuster rule.
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Murphy first mentioned his filibuster idea to friend and colleague Sen.
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"We have to get rid of the filibuster rule," he said.
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Historically, the availability of the filibuster empowered the minority Senate party.
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For all those reasons, Democrats have vowed to filibuster Gorsuch's nomination.
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The legislation is expected to clear a filibuster easily, with Sen.
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"I think the Democrats really had to filibuster this," he said.
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This is widely understood as a threat to launch a filibuster.
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Smith-style filibuster would be covered by news and social media.
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She wants to persuade her fellow Democrats to abolish the filibuster.
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"GOP going nuclear over Gorsuch might destroy filibuster forever" https://t.
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And he said we have to get rid of the filibuster.
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Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home demanding the Minority Leader filibuster the choice.
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Go deeper: Where 2020 Democrats stand on ending the Senate filibuster
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The filibuster was technically bipartisan, with 19 Democrats voting against cloture.
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Because they can avoid the filibuster, the budget rules are powerful.
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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the filibuster.
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Intraparty divisions aside, suppose the Senate were to eliminate the filibuster.
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But by design, that move left the Supreme Court filibuster untouched.
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First Republicans threatened to filibuster judges, then Democrats actually filibustered one.
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"I'll do whatever it takes, and that includes filibuster," Paul said.
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"Without the filibuster rule it'll happen just like magic," Trump said.
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And number two, would you get rid of the legislative filibuster?
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And without the filibuster rule, it will happen just like magic.
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"Trump knows Senate R's won't get rid of filibuster," Kristol wrote.
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Only three committed to backing an end to the Senate filibuster.
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Demands that their Senate counterparts eliminate the filibuster could mount quickly.
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They have the ability to filibuster any bill in the Senate.
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What is your position on structural reforms, like eliminating the filibuster?
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But there are two ways senators can filibuster a cloture vote.
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It is often written that the Senate "changed" the filibuster rule.
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Most senators over the past 100 years have valued the filibuster.
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In the Senate, the vote would not be subject to filibuster.
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The last attempt to end the filibuster failed by five votes.
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Chris Murphy staged a 22013-hour filibuster on the Senate floor.
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They must end the filibuster rule and get down to work.
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Another longstanding argument for the filibuster is that it forces bipartisanship.
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In short, the filibuster no longer pushes the Senate toward bipartisanship.
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If Republicans remove the legislative filibuster, Ted Cruz has less power.
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Just 41 senators could filibuster any attempts to amend this policy.
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Will Murkowski kill the filibuster for Scalia's replacement, but not Ginsburg's?
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Richard Arenberg, a former staff member for three Democratic senators and co-author "Defending the Filibuster: The Soul of the Senate" wrote this week in the New York Times that the Republicans shouldn't weaken the filibuster.
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Democrats became so frustrated with the use of the filibuster to block Obama&aposs court nominees that they voted in 2013 to lower the threshold for overcoming the filibuster from 60 votes to a simple majority.
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The arcane rules of the Senate gave them two ways to do this: Either with enough bipartisan support to overcome a filibuster, or through a complex budget process that would allow them to circumvent the filibuster.
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Hal Rogers, a Republican from Kentucky and former chairman of the House appropriations committee, said he wanted to see the Senate filibuster eradicated -- even though the filibuster wasn't responsible for taking down the Obamacare repeal bill.
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"Bernie supports the filibuster, but I want to get rid of the filibuster because I want to get something done," Warren said, referring to the Senate rule that lets a minority of the chamber block legislation.
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Democrats had eliminated the filibuster for executive branch appointees, Republicans followed suit for the Supreme Court, and the Congressional Review Act allows the Senate and House to repeal recently decided federal rules without facing a filibuster.
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Next -- Once McConnell has finally positioned to revote to break the filibuster, he will make a point of order that it should take 51 votes instead of 60 to overcome a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee.
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In exchange for that concession, Republicans would promise not blow up the rule allowing the Senate minority to filibuster Supreme Court nominations — giving Democrats the ability to filibuster the next, potentially more objectionable Trump Supreme Court pick.
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Nonetheless, without the leverage of the threat of a filibuster creating a 60-vote threshold (sometimes the actual use of the filibuster is not necessary,) every Trump executive branch nominee is now virtually certain to be confirmed.
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The increasing use of the filibuster has created an even bigger hurdle in which most legislation needs to get 60 out of 100 votes, instead of a simple majority, to make it through the filibuster and pass.
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During the filibuster, Warren discussed her love of attending Boston's Pride parade.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer slammed the potential filibuster move on Monday.
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Who knows, given that a Republican Senate wouldn't even have to filibuster.
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Overcoming an 11-hour filibuster by state Senator Wendy Davis, the Texas
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The filibuster would be gone, and it would the Republicans' own doing.
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Senate Democrats have the power to filibuster nominees to the Supreme Court.
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Ted Kennedy in January 2010, the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority was broken.
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They will need 60 votes (and Democratic support) to overcome a filibuster.
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Senate's rules to end the filibuster for executive and judicial nominees, with
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There has never been a successful filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee.
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After four unsuccessful attempts to stop the filibuster, the GOP backed down.
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It has been described as performance art, a filibuster, even slam poetry.
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JOHN HARWOOD: Would you say the same thing about a legislative filibuster?
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Democrats can block the Department of Homeland Security funding in a filibuster.
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Democrats would have helped it easily evade a filibuster in the Senate.
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That's a huge power -- the filibuster -- Democrats have to block Trump's agenda.
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Chris Coons, D-Delaware, have not said if they will filibuster Gorsuch.
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Without question a Democratic filibuster would be a bold and aggressive move.
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But Senate Democrats have good reason to move forward with a filibuster.
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Our April 103th show defined terms like filibuster and the nuclear option.
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Sixty votes will be needed to break a filibuster of the bill.
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Ron Wyden, meanwhile, announced plans to filibuster the bill in the Senate.
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In 2009 and 2010, this manifested in the weaponization of the filibuster.
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Gorsuch's path to overcoming a filibuster closed on Monday after Democratic Sens.
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"It would be foolish to get rid of the filibuster," Massie said.
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The word "filibuster" has always conjured up in my mind negative connotations.
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But without the Senate filibuster, it's not clear the deal will survive.
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Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Rubio voted to filibuster her nomination.
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Without the filibuster, Republicans have no excuse to compromise on a moderate.
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He has indicated he may support a deal to avoid a filibuster.
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This made the elimination of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations all
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McConnell would allow the Democrats to filibuster a Supreme Court nomination—especially
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It's really painful for me to have to filibuster my own bill.
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But lets see a full filibuster for [Supreme Court nominee Neil] Gorsuch.
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It's a filibuster—the car chase scene of the American legislative process!
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After that, Democrats will be able to filibuster their health-care pushes.
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The move would Mattis the only Cabinet nominee they could potentially filibuster.
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Many members blame the 60-vote rule known as the filibuster. Rep.
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The proposal attracted 55 votes but was defeated by a Republican filibuster.
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But it is unclear whether Democrats at large will back a filibuster.
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In 21625 and again in 2900, the filibuster was eliminated for nominations.
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Simply put, there are no filibuster norms upon which to build traditions.
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The filibuster is emblematic of our country's rising political antagonism and dysfunction.
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Democrats hope to carry the momentum from Wednesday's filibuster into Monday's votes.
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Sanders in early April shifted somewhat on the issue of the filibuster.
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Sam Brownback's (R) ambassador nomination, allowing Republicans to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
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Democrats tried to get in the way, launching a short-lived filibuster.
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The Gorsuch nomination provides a perfect way for the filibuster to die.
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McConnell isn't about to give that up because of a Democratic filibuster.
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"It's unlikely to pass Congress without a filibuster-proof majority," he said.
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This approach is also consistent with other procedures for circumventing the filibuster.
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It was as far from a filibuster as is possible to imagine.
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Enough Senate Democrats to filibuster the bill demanded it be taken out.
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A conservative group took that to mean that McCaskill opposed the filibuster.
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But McConnell has shown no inclination to ditch the filibuster for legislation.
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You all know we failed because we couldn't break a Senate filibuster.
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A CRA resolution cannot be stopped by a filibuster in the Senate.
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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy started the filibuster at about 11:20 a.m.
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The Senate must use the vehicle, called reconciliation, to avoid a filibuster.
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The First Congress did not mention or recognize the ability to filibuster.
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And with filibuster power in the Senate, Democrats expect to have leverage.
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When bills did reach the Senate, the coalition joined forces to filibuster.
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Allowing the Democrats to filibuster helps get them out of this bind.
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Or Senate Republicans could suck it up and eliminate the filibuster already.
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And he has argued for abolishing the filibuster and the Electoral College.
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With no filibuster, the GOP does not need any votes from Democrats.
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If they do filibuster him, it will break a 230-year tradition.
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Warren says Democrats won't get gun reform passed without abolishing the filibuster.
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Understand this: The filibuster is giving a veto to the gun industry.
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Among those who oppose rolling back the filibuster are Biden, and Sens.
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Another route would be to return the filibuster to its procedural roots.
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Republicans pushed Gorsuch through after eliminating the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees.
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Democrats did away with the option to filibuster cabinet picks in 2013.
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Senators filibuster Rangers, 2-1, in round 2 of the playoff series.
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No one will want to take steps to decapitate the legislative filibuster.
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Democratic senators say they will filibuster — refuse to close discussions — on Thursday.
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If we want to make progress, it's time to end the filibuster.
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They hope to carry the momentum from Murphy's filibuster into Monday's votes.
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The framing for the filibuster fight would be different at that point.
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The potential showdown has raised interest in the peculiar Senate filibuster rule.
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But there's still strong reluctance among GOP senators to limiting the filibuster.
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In the Senate, the special procedure prevents the use of the filibuster.
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McConnell had no immediate response to Trump's call to kill the filibuster.
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Fortas' supporters could not overcome a filibuster, and Fortas had to withdraw.
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Weakening the filibuster writes the minority out of Supreme Court confirmation deliberations.
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Democrats controlled the Senate for less than 14 months after filibuster reform.
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But filibuster reform did not just improve the quality of nominees' resumes.
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Jefferson Smith who takes to the Senate floor to filibuster against corruption.
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But it has 22017 Democratic cosponsors, giving it a filibuster-proof majority.
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It was just a chance for each candidate to filibuster a bit.
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In the Senate, the passage could be blocked by a Democratic filibuster.
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Democratic candidates for the 20093 nomination must come out against the filibuster.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was nearly killed by a filibuster.
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Progressive groups have fought hard for a Democratic filibuster of Gorsuch. Sen.
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Maria Cantwell, Tom Carper, and Bill Nelson, voted to break the filibuster.
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Without the filibuster, Republicans could confirm a replacement with a simple majority.
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"The filibuster is a decision that's made in the Senate," he said.
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The threat of a Democratic filibuster in the Senate was too powerful.
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But the filibuster makes bipartisan compromise necessary to do just about anything.
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It might seem dubious to blame the filibuster for Trump's rough start.
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But now the filibuster is just a recipe for inaction and gridlock.
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So we're 0 for 2 now on reasons to keep the filibuster.
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So we're now 0 for 3 on reasons to keep the filibuster.
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The conventional arguments in favor of the filibuster are losing their force.
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WHELAN: Look, what the left is saying now, have in mind that they tried to filibuster Neil Gorsuch, someone who was widely acclaimed and in the process, of course, they triggered the abolition of the Supreme Court filibuster.
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But actually getting the bill passed looks to be an uphill battle: Democrats have promised to filibuster in order to put off the final vote, and ending a filibuster would require a supermajority vote, which is hard to reach.
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With Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urging Democratic senators Thursday to stand united and filibuster Gorsuch, Republicans may need to rely on the parliamentary maneuver to kill the filibuster and push Trump's high court pick over the finish line.
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So, it may not be surprising that in November, 2013, the day after the Democrats were the first to use the nuclear option, eliminating the filibuster on some presidential nominations, Trump tweeted Thomas Jefferson wrote the Senate filibuster rule.
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Republicans, who number 52 in the Senate, could then easily end the filibuster.
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"I am concerned there is pressure," said Flake about changing the legislative filibuster.
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It is not difficult to imagine that if there is a filibuster, Sen.
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Gone is the 60-vote, filibuster-proof threshold required to confirm judicial candidates.
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President Trump is absolutely right in calling for an end to the filibuster.
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A vote to break a filibuster of Kacsmaryk is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
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But it has 22017 Democratic co-sponsors, giving it a filibuster-proof majority.
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Had Democrats not tried to block Gorsuch, they would still have the filibuster.
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How serious are you are about trying to get rid of the filibuster?
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What about fears among Democrats about what Republicans would do absent the filibuster?
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It takes 603 votes to overcome a filibuster on legislation in the Senate.
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So doing would drop the threshold to break a filibuster to 51 yeas.
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Democrats said they had enough votes to block his appointment by a filibuster.
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I believe Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch and will not vote to close debate.
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Most of his fellow Democratic senators had no idea the filibuster was coming.
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In that case, a filibuster will not prevent the nominee from being confirmed.
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Now, McConnell did eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations earlier this year.
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If 40 of them can stick together, they can filibuster Republican environmental legislation.
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The only check is that Senate Democrats can obstruct and delay and filibuster.
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Chris Murphy of Connecticut's nearly 15-hour filibuster that led to the votes.
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Senate Democrats have threatened to filibuster any language providing money for the wall.
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Republicans must get rid of the stupid Filibuster Rule-it is killing you!
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Jeff Flake, R-Arizona of the need to maintain the filibuster for legislation.
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The filibuster requires 60 votes to break and Republicans only hold 52 seats.
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It leaves me then very stunned why there's this talk about a filibuster.
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I&aposd like to add one last thing, I promise not to filibuster.
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There are lots and lots of reasons to explain the soaring filibuster numbers.
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They turned the filibuster from a seldom-used tool to a routine exercise.
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To defeat a filibuster, they would need eight Democrats to cross party lines.
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McConnell has noted that Republicans did not filibuster Obama's two first-term nominees.
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The demands of the Democratic base for a filibuster could also prove irresistible.
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But not all Democrats say they made a mistake in weakening the filibuster.
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Or do get a majority, but are unwilling to eliminate the legislative filibuster?
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In the face of a relentless Democratic filibuster, Republicans would have several options.
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"I would do away with a filibuster for judges in general," he said.
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They could lose only two senators if they wanted to gut the filibuster.
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Gorsuch's confirmation hearings began Monday amid threats from Senate Democrats to filibuster him.
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Existing Senate rules provide another way to overcome a filibuster—without going nuclear.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and whether Democrats should filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
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We've got to get 60 votes to break a filibuster in the Senate.
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Republicans hope to use that special budgetary procedure to bypass a Democratic filibuster.
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And there's just one remaining filibuster left — the 33-vote threshold for legislation.
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McConnell said Republicans have the votes to change the rules if Democrats filibuster.
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Ending the filibuster would lower that threshold to a simple 51-vote majority.
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But they may run into resistance in the Senate, where Democrats could filibuster.
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There is another good reason to filibuster Gorsuch: His jurisprudence will be awful.
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Democrats in the Senate began a pro-gun control filibuster on Wednesday afternoon.
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EDT: The American Enterprise Institute is holding a discussion on the Senate filibuster.
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Pryor's views on abortion and gay rights might have made a filibuster unavoidable.
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Reid's nuclear tactic one step further, jettisoning the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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Murphy's filibuster even surprised some of his closest allies on gun violence. Rep.
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And using reconciliation is key to avoiding a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
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How long can the Republican Senate filibuster this nomination and those of others?
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Yes, the filibuster makes policy less likely to seesaw wildly with every election.
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It's a drastic move: curtailing the filibuster, the minority party's last-ditch tool.
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At least eight Senate Democrats or independents are needed to break a filibuster.
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If you'd be filibustering a judge like this, it's obvious you'd filibuster anyone.
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Republicans can use a special process known as reconciliation to avoid a filibuster.
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Senate Democrats would be powerless to filibuster the legislation under the parliamentary rules.
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"I'm not crazy about getting rid of the filibuster," Sanders said in February.
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It is not necessary to get rid of the filibuster to repeal Obamacare.
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At least how many U.S. Senate votes are needed to overcome a filibuster?
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If Democrats reclaim power, they should get rid of the filibuster, she said.
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Chris Murphy finished his nearly 15-hour filibuster at just after 2 a.m.
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By contrast, among others running for president, the filibuster isn't nearly as revered.
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Last summer, Murphy held a 15-hour filibuster calling for gun reform. Sen.
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The filibuster has turned the most deliberative body into the most obstructionist one.
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Why not force Joe Biden to take a clear stance on filibuster abolition?
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If 41 of them can stick together, they can filibuster Republican environmental legislation.
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And the famous deal to preserve the judicial filibuster has long since dissolved.
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Under that strategy, the drilling measure would share the protection from a filibuster.
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The future of our country is sacrificed at the altar of the filibuster.
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He noted that Mr. Strange had only recently criticized the Senate filibuster rule.
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Under all the presidents before Obama, 86 nominations had been blocked by filibuster.
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In just the Obama presidency alone, McConnell used the filibuster to block 82.
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Perhaps more modest reforms — like restoring the "talking filibuster" — should be tried first.
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The ugly 60-day filibuster of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.
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That leaves it to Democrats to consider whether the filibuster is worth saving.
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Yes, the Republicans could possibly strip the filibuster away the next time, too.
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The measure includes instructions allowing Republicans' tax plan to avoid a Democratic filibuster.
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But Senate Democrats, empowered by the filibuster, have leverage to make certain demands.
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McConnell needs 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster and pass a bill.
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Clinton becomes president, Republicans could try to block a nomination through a filibuster.
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The filibuster, once a rarity, has become a routine tool of legislative obstruction.
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A "two-track" system introduced in 1970 exploded the use of the filibuster.
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McConnell could still move to break a filibuster, however, by filing for cloture.
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The #SchumerShutdown was possible because 6900 votes are required to break a filibuster.
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When there is no filibuster, legislation can be passed at a simple majority.
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Within minutes, there was already a filibuster threat on the bill from Sen.
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Democrats could also filibuster the resolution — which would require 60 votes to overcome.
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Previously, such nominations could face a filibuster, which required 60 votes to overcome.
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This can't get done without a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate.
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The judge would need to win over eight Democrats to avoid a filibuster.
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The second argument for the filibuster is less about partisan advantage or results.
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The actions that can be restrained by filibuster have become limited and arbitrary.
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While any Democrat could filibuster, Congress and the presidency will be Republican-controlled.
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President Trump has a surprisingly sensible idea: get rid of the legislative filibuster.
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The final reason to keep the filibuster is that it empowers individual members.
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The Democrats in the Senate will stop that by a filibuster if necessary.
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Will she keep not killing the filibuster for Ginsburg's replacement month after month?
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Schumer did so, knowing that such a filibuster could trigger Republicans to launch the so called "nuclear option," changing Senate rules to lower the voting threshold to a simple majority and do away with the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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First, Merkley has ideas for other reforms—such as a "talking filibuster" requiring senators preventing a vote to actually stay on the floor arguing against it (as opposed to today's "virtual filibuster," which allows senators to oppose legislation in absentia).
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It was McConnell's indiscriminate filibuster of three judges in 2013—an attempt to exert sole partisan dominion over the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals—that preceded then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to abolish the filibuster for lower court judges.
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Because no Democrat would vote for these tax cuts to pass over a filibuster, tax cuts for all individual taxpayers were made temporary, set to expire after eight years, to fit into the budgetary window that is exempt from filibuster.
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The fight will test the Senate tradition, which is under pressure after Democrats scrapped the filibuster for all judicial nominees below the level of Supreme Court in 2013 and Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court picks earlier this year.
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In the Senate, the legislative filibuster remains, but Democratic presidential candidates and, significantly, several leading Democratic senators have expressed a willingness to consider filibuster changes or even its abolition if their party retakes the majority after the election next year.
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Republicans say the filibuster of Gorsuch backfired because it resulted in a rules change, stripping Democrats of the power to filibuster a future Trump nominee to the high court when the stakes might be higher or the political environment changed.
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The votes were spurred in large part due to a filibuster from Connecticut Sen.
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Mr. Cruz is a practitioner of the filibuster; Mr. Roe is pithy and profane.
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However, Democrats would risk Republicans ending the filibuster and losing it in future fights.
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Back then, it took 60 votes to break a filibuster and approve judicial nominees.
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Democrats need not be in the business of protecting a filibuster they cannot use.
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This week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his intention to filibuster Gorsuch's nomination.
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The legislative filibuster endures only because a majority of senators want it to endure.
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Which raises the second possibility: The majority party could simply live with the filibuster.
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"I hope we don't have to go there," Flake said of eliminating the filibuster.
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But now, with this filibuster gone on Supreme Court justice votes, they need 51.
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Democrats would be able to block this nomination if you still have the filibuster.
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If the filibuster is beaten, the confirmation vote itself would require a simple majority.
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Jay Inslee, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Beto O'Rourke have all discussed eliminating the filibuster.
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Republicans can repeal significant portions through a budget procedure that avoids a Senate filibuster.
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But for some reason Trump is obsessed with having a filibuster-proof majority anyway.
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They agree to keep the rule in place, and we agree not to filibuster.
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Wang: Now do you think the majority will do away with the filibuster requirement?
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Republicans controlled the Senate but they still needed 60 votes to break a filibuster.
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The new rules also weaken the filibuster for all Supreme Court nominees going forward.
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For, in most cases, the filibuster has been seen as a source of obstruction.
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CNN's whip list has 36 Democrats saying or suggesting they will filibuster Gorsuch's nomination.
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Then, if they don't like that, that's perhaps when they could use the filibuster.
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Democrats had previously eliminated the filibuster for other judicial nominees under the Obama administration.
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However, the lack of controls on speaking time may mean opponents could filibuster it.
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Currently, the rules require a super-majority of 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
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The Democrats controlled 68 Senate seats (60 votes are required to overcome a filibuster).
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Since debate is limited to 28500 hours, filibuster of reconciliation bills is not possible.
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"The filibuster no longer acts as an emergency break on the nomination," he said.
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Republicans would have a filibuster-proof majority if they could win just eight seats.
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Senate Democrats can mount a filibuster, requiring 60 votes in the Senate for approval.
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Such legislation would need to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Senate.
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What Republicans did to Obama's nominee Garland was worse than a filibuster, Schumer said.
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A showdown is looming over Gorsuch who needs 60 votes to end a filibuster.
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Third, and perhaps most important, the filibuster provides political cover for cross-pressured Republicans.
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If the Democrats try to filibuster the nomination, they can lose in multiple ways.
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New York Senator Chuck Schumer has assured people that democrats will filibuster Gorsuch's confirmation.
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The easy way out of this problem is, of course, to end the filibuster.
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The measures can circumvent a filibuster, leaving Democrats with little power to stop them.
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She accidentally buys Sleepytime Tea, which immediately knocks Lillian out and ends her filibuster.
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Wendy Davis (of filibuster and pink running shoes fame), in a speech she gave
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So far, 38 Democrats have vowed to filibuster Gorsuch while only two Democrats – Sens.
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Gorsuch's prospects for ending a filibuster got a boost later on Monday when Sen.
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"I have no doubt they'll go nuclear if we filibuster," said one Democratic senator.
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Much of the criticism of the filibuster from Trump came during the healthcare debate.
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But in fact, the filibuster, in its odd, mathematical way, fosters, even requires, civility.
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Killing the filibuster would open more options but the appetite is highly uncertain. 3.
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In the Senate, the bill will move under special rules that prevent a filibuster.
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They voted to filibuster the bill on Wednesday, and did so again Thursday afternoon.
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It is doubtful Democrats would act hastily to scale back the filibuster against legislation.
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Democrats nixed the 60-vote filibuster for district and circuit court judges in 2013.
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It appears unlikely to pass the Senate, where Democrats have vowed to filibuster it.
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We arrived home at 85033:10 am, just as Murphy was ending the filibuster.
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They could vote to revive the filibuster, allowing Democrats to block the Trump nominee.
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Flake is not part of any effort to strike a deal on the filibuster.
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Unfortunately for Democrats, however, the filibuster is not as powerful as it once was.
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The bill failed to overcome a filibuster in the Democratic-controlled Senate that December.
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Earlier this week, Paul threatened to filibuster any long-term extension of Section 702.
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Sixty votes are required to overcome a filibuster, and Republicans didn't have those votes.
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Of course, nobody's really studied exactly what your brain looks like on a filibuster.
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Republicans today are threatening to filibuster any attempt to vote on a new justice.
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I thought the same when Rand Paul made national headlines with his 2013 filibuster.
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Pat Toomey became the first Republican to speak during the filibuster around 3 p.m.
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Abandoning this rule opened the possibility for any Senator to filibuster one measure endlessly.
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The bottom line is no one should weep for the destruction of the filibuster.
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At least one Democrat has signaled they won't back the party's likely filibuster. Sen.
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It's true that the Senate does not have a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority.
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Even narrow legislative bills proposing regulatory turnarounds face filibuster threats under current Senate rules.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has also been a big advocate for eliminating the filibuster.
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INSLEE: Yes, first by taking away the filibuster from Mitch McConnell to start with.
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"The big challenge that we faced was the filibuster," Barack Obama said in 20163.
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Warren is for ending the filibuster in the Senate, Sanders has warned against it.
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The measure now heads to the Senate, where it could still face a filibuster.
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It narrowly failed to meet the 60-vote threshold required to avoid a filibuster.
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Understand this: Many people on this stage do not support rolling back the filibuster.
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Republicans need to lay the groundwork now to make a Reid filibuster political untenable.
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However, the filibuster requires 41 senators, not a single senator, to block a nominee.
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It is unusual to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee, but it has been tried.
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ET on Tuesday when Republicans will try to break a Democratic filibuster of him.
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House members cannot filibuster, as the House floor is tightly controlled by the majority.
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Q: So what is the chance of a filibuster on a nominee by Obama?
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But Republicans also have deep reasons to keep the filibuster intact, as Waldman explains.
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He is threatening to filibuster Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
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Democrats will likely demand Gorsuch meet the 60-vote threshold to break a filibuster.
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More than a dozen Democrats supported the bill, overriding a potential filibuster from liberals.
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The Senate filibuster effectively requires Democrats to obtain a supermajority to pass most legislation.
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It was not technically a proper filibuster, as no Senate business was being delayed.
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Under that second possibility, it may not be inevitable that the filibuster rule falls.
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But they left the filibuster rule intact for Supreme Court nominations and for legislation.
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But they may run into resistance in the Senate, where Democrats could filibuster. Rep.
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And for all the outcry over Justice Thomas, no senator chose to filibuster him.
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Brooks has urged the Senate GOP to get rid of the legislative filibuster before.
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Republicans are using a budget maneuver, called reconciliation, because it avoids a Democratic filibuster.
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Senate Democrats can drag out confirmation votes, but they can no longer filibuster nominations.
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A total of nine Democrats are needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.
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Leader McConnell and the Senate GOP could checkmate Schumer by changing the filibuster rule.
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That legislation would not have reconciliation protection and therefore must potentially overcome a filibuster.
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The budget's reconciliation process will let Republicans avoid a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
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Beating a potential filibuster would require Republicans to swing eight Democrats to their side.
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It's backed by a bipartisan coalition, including a filibuster-proof buffer of 13 Democrats.
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Edward Kennedy in January 2010, Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
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But the men who structured the Senate didn't envision a filibuster or supermajority requirement.
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Some, like ending partisan gerrymandering and getting rid of the Senate filibuster, are familiar.
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And Democrats are unlikely to have a filibuster-proof Senate supermajority any time soon.
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This is one reason Republicans should probably value the filibuster more than Democrats do.
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Ed Markey said he wasn't sure if he would want to filibuster Trump's pick.
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So Democrats are not going to pass anything unless they kill the filibuster, right?
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A filibuster will be another rallying opportunity for the Democratic Party base and it will force McConnell to use the so-called "nuclear option" of changing Senate rules to allow Republicans to invoke cloture, which would kill the filibuster, without 60 votes.
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RELATED: Here's how senators plan to vote on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch Thursday: The filibuster showdown On Tuesday, McConnell is expected to move to end the floor debate on Gorsuch setting up a critical vote Thursday morning to break the Democratic filibuster.
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The best liberal case against the Gorsuch filibuster rests on the hope that, if Democrats agree to confirm him, McConnell might somehow reciprocate their goodwill by preserving the filibuster when the next vacancy arises, allowing Democrats to force Trump to appoint a moderate.
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Tradition also didn't stop Senate Democrats from eliminating the filibuster for confirmations to cabinet posts and lower court judgeships in 2013, nor did it stop Senate Republicans from going a step further last month and ending the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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Because Democrats foolishly shattered longstanding Senate traditions by weakening the Senate's filibuster power for judicial nominations in 2013, and then trying to filibuster Justice Neil Gorsuch in 2017, they are left to lie in a bed of irrelevance of their own making.
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Trump's first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, was confirmed by a 54-45 vote, with McConnell in deploying the so-called "nuclear option" to push Gorsuch through without the 60 votes otherwise needed break a filibuster, citing Reid's filibuster abolishment four years earlier.
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In response to the filibuster threat, and after not being able to marshal a supermajority to end the filibuster, the Republican leader invoked the so-called "nuclear option,"(a phrase which I detest) whereby Judge Gorsuch could be confirmed by a majority.
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As long as the filibuster is intact, they would still need Republicans to agree on some of their policy proposals — though a bare majority could decide to change the rules and eliminate the filibuster altogether, something a few presidential candidates including Sen.
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Before the filibuster can be eliminated and before new states can shift the balance of power in the Senate, a majority in the Senate, dominated by the Republican Party and moderate Democrats, will have to support killing the filibuster and adding new states.
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The biggest test still awaits: whether, in protest of the treatment of Judge Garland, to filibuster the confirmation of Mr. Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil M. Gorsuch, which could lead to Republicans' eliminating the filibuster for court confirmations once and for all.
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Under the "two-track" system, a call for a filibuster stops the bill in question while the Senate moves on to other business, making the filibuster more deadly by making it easy and cost-free: there have been 1,85033 filibusters since 1970.
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Special procedures preventing Democrats from using a filibuster to kill the measure expire after Sept.
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Senate Republicans nuked the filibuster to get Neil Gorsuch a seat on the Supreme Court.
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RELATED: The Gorsuch filibuster debate rages in Senate Democrats are experiencing such a consequence now.
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A decision not to filibuster would likely be cast as a kind of strategic retreat.
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Forcing an actual filibuster, both parties seem to have decided, simply takes too much time.
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The bottom line is this: Senate spending bills need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
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Republicans need eight of their Democratic colleagues to break that threshold and prevent a filibuster.
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Democrats could mount a filibuster against a nomination, which would require 60 votes to break.
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But if Democrats can muster 41 votes, they would be able to sustain the filibuster.
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With 52 Republicans, the party would need eight Democratic senators to break a likely filibuster.
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I believe the filibuster is an artifact of history that no longer fits American democracy.
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The measure faces long odds in the Senate despite being immune to a Democratic filibuster.
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CRA resolutions can be approved with just a simple majority, and aren't subject to filibuster.
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The filibuster only serves to maintain the status-quo and uphold a broken political system.
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Instead, they will need 60 votes, and hence some Democratic support, to avoid a filibuster.
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Practically, the Senate filibuster rule already means 22010 votes are required to advance most bills.
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The measure passed even with then-State Senator Wendy Davis's filibuster, which captured national attention.
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Ginsburg noted the Senate would be an issue for the President with a GOP filibuster.
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A two-thirds majority cloture vote of 60 is necessary to end a Senate filibuster.
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Warren has also expressed support for getting rid of the filibuster, while Booker and Sen.
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The filibuster change opened the door to three more Democratic appointees on that influential court.
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McConnell warned Senate Democrats they would regret the change in the age-old filibuster practices.
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Despite his attempts to filibuster the conversation, Kelly got in several prods about his position.
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That means it would have to win over eight Democratic senators to beat a filibuster.
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That bill cannot get the 60 votes needed in the Senate to override a filibuster.
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Its rules, written for a two-party system, allow one deputy to filibuster a law.
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Check out this Brookings history of the filibuster and give a nod to Aaron Burr.
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Liberals spent much of their time during the 1950s and 1960s calling for filibuster reform.
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Democrats have been arguing for decades that the filibuster doesn't tend to benefit their party.
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Each senator had the authority to grind the body to a halt through the filibuster.
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The actual confirmation vote would be by a simple majority if the filibuster is stopped.
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But all of those bills have been met with a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
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In 2013, for example, the body met there as it debated changes to filibuster rules.
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But asked if he supported breaking the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, he demurred. Sen.
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Nobody expects either amendment to obtain the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.
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Other, nonbudgetary bills require at least 60 votes to avoid the prospect of a filibuster.
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But that would require cooperation from at least eight Senate Democrats to overcome a filibuster.
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Merkley has said he will filibuster any Trump Supreme Court pick that is not Garland.
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Democrats in the Senate could filibuster any attempts to amend this policy with 41 votes.
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The filibuster prevents closing debate in the Senate unless 28503 members vote to close it.
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Of course, conservative Republicans could try to filibuster and prevent a vote by the Senate.
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"Absolutely," Cruz said when asked on ABC's "This Week" if he would filibuster any nominee.
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" On the filibuster rule: "They have to get rid of it... It's a death sentence.
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Even more daunting are the Senate Democrats, who are likely to filibuster any Republican proposal.
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"The core of the Senate is the legislative filibuster," McConnell told USA Today in April.
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To date, four Democrats oppose a filibuster, four short of the eight that Republicans needed.
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With the elimination of the filibuster, the next nominee is hardly likely to be nuanced.
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The debate could provide the Republicans the ammunition they need to end the filibuster altogether.
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Indeed, shrewd observers note that the Court filibuster has been effectively dead for many years.
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A filibuster can only be ended by a two-thirds majority vote, known as cloture.
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He talked up Sitaraman's court proposal and expressed an openness to eliminating the Senate filibuster.
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Without a filibuster to shut down debate, Manchin-Toomey would have likely passed the Senate.
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Warrantless wiretapping is another issue that is directly impacted by the existence of a filibuster.
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An earlier version of this briefing misidentified the senator who led a 15-hour filibuster.
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I saw Wendy Davis filibuster HB2 and quit my stupid tech job in San Francisco.
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Republicans were furious at Democrats for mounting an unprecedented political filibuster of a qualified nominee.
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But if they get on bill, they'll need 60 to break filibuster, which won't happen.
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Strom Thurmond was able to filibuster the 1957 Civil Rights Act for only 24 hours.
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At least eight Senate Democrats or independents would need to vote to break a filibuster.
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But other Democrats elected in recent cycles have clamored for a crackdown on the filibuster.
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It took 31 years before a senator seized on the change and initiated a filibuster.
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There are only clear divisions: what the filibuster once was and what it has become.
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Most large bills need 60 votes to pass the upper chamber to overcome a filibuster.
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Johnson's campaign pointed to the filibuster of Justice Samuel Alito in 2006 by then-Sen.
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On Wednesday, Senate Democrats began a filibuster to force a vote on gun-control legislation.
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Leahy said that even though he opposed the nominee, he wouldn't engage in a filibuster.
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As a result, Trump renewed his calls for the Senate to end its filibuster rule.
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This possibility of filibuster has kept much of the organization of the Senate relatively routine.
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Top Democratic leaders, meanwhile, have left the door open to getting rid of the filibuster.
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That's because repealing Obamacare could only be done using expedited, filibuster-proof "reconciliation" budget procedures.
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The high-water mark would be blowing a hole in the legislative filibuster for everything.
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Republicans, meanwhile, said they felt they had no other option because of the Democratic filibuster.
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After that deadline, it'll be subject to the filibuster and require an impossible 60 votes.
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Fourteen Republicans and all Democrats are needed to break a filibuster and confirm the nominee.
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But it's procedurally simple to repeal, and Democrats in the Senate can't filibuster CRA votes.
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In any case, Democrats will have enough members in the Senate to filibuster his initiatives.
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"We should not be doing anything to mess with the strength of the filibuster," Sen.
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Chris Murphy's filibuster on Wednesday, there were at least 23 shootings across the United States.
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But asked whether he'd eliminate the filibuster, he pronounced himself "not crazy" about the idea.
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He urged the Senate to get rid of the filibuster rule and go totally nuclear.
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Through either reconciliation or filibuster reform, they would have the opportunity to repeal the ACA.
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Consider: During the 22019s, a congressional session typically had one filibuster on average per session.
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But that doesn't appear to be what the Senate will do — they'll retain the filibuster.
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It also won 55 Senate votes — a majority but not enough to overcome a filibuster.
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And that means leaving blood, teeth and shredded filibuster rules all over the Senate floor.
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Advocates of federalism must fight to preserve our presidential system, which includes the legislative filibuster.
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Seth Moulton have come out forcefully in favor of killing the filibuster, others, including Sen.
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Rand Paul (R-KY) filibuster over the package's spending increases forced a brief government shutdown.
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As McConnell notes, Democrats were the first to change the filibuster rules on judicial nominees.
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But in the Senate, Ms. Murkowski needed a bill that could survive a likely filibuster.
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The filibuster attempt may have been a surprise but the timing was hardly a coincidence.
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McConnell used the "nuclear option" once already, for Neil Gorsuch, rendering a Democratic filibuster irrelevant.
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The Senate is broken, and the partisan filibuster is impeding the functioning of good government.
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I also support the elimination of the filibuster if required to achieve lasting gun reform.
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Democrats have fiercely defended the law and could sink full repeal efforts with a filibuster.
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They fear that eliminating the filibuster would be catastrophic for Republicans if Democrats regain power.
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Until Mr. Trump's latest outburst, the fate of the legislative filibuster was far from assured.
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However, the vast majority of the time, the filibuster no longer operates for this purpose.
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Democrats can filibuster Gorsuch's nomination if 41 senators vote against ending debate on his nomination.
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Ironically, Democrats killed filibuster power on nominations as inherently abusive, except for Supreme Court vacancies.
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Trump has repeatedly called for Republicans to change the rules and remove the legislative filibuster.
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That said, some Republicans could decide to vote with the Democrats to end a filibuster.
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Now blue slips seem to be going the way of the filibuster for judicial nominees.
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To pass anything more than incremental legislation, they'll have to overcome (or eliminate) the filibuster.
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These rules limit debate, preclude a filibuster and allow passage with a simple majority vote.
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Much has been written about why use of the filibuster grew rapidly in recent decades.
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Sixty votes would be necessary to break a filibuster and confirm a Supreme Court justice.
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The first possibility is that the showdown over abolishing the filibuster rule takes place now.
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Democrats changed the filibuster rules for nominations when they controlled the Senate, easing the process.
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President Trump on Wednesday called for Senate Republicans to get rid of the legislative filibuster.
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Republicans could also pull a radical overhaul of the legislative process and abolish the filibuster.
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Yet the other undecided Democrats broke against the nominee, making his filibuster all but assured.
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The survey comes amid a growing push among Democrats to abolish the Senate filibuster. Rep.
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Breaking a filibuster would require Republicans, who hold 52 Senate seats, to win 60 votes.
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The Senate's "cloture" rule requires a supermajority of 60 votes to overcome such a filibuster.
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But none yet have the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster in the chamber.Sen.
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These barriers are part of the reason many activists are pushing to end the filibuster.
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Senate Republicans need at least nine Democratic votes to beat back a Democratic-led filibuster.
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The legislation will also have to overcome the threat of a final 60-vote filibuster.
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As frustrating as the filibuster may be, it is what makes the Senate the Senate.
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The filibuster-style speech shattered the record for the longest speech on the House floor.
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Senate Republicans will meet Wednesday to discuss a task force's recommendations for changing the filibuster.
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"I think it is good to have the power of the filibuster," he said. Sen.
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Senate Republicans hoped for big gains in November 1998, dreaming of a filibuster-proof majority.
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But the Goodlatte bill seems unlikely to win a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
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Without the legislative filibuster to constrain them, Republicans would have repealed the Affordable Care Act.
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Democrats are likely to filibuster it, which means it will require 20053 votes to pass.
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Both of these measures, however, could be subject to a filibuster by 41 Senate Democrats.
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All of this — all of this — could be avoided if you just eliminated the filibuster.
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Some 2020 candidates including Elizabeth Warren have called for the elimination of the filibuster entirely.
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Democrats have not firmly said if they will filibuster a nominee -- and Republicans have not flatly said they would break that filibuster through a rules change known as the "nuclear option" -- but those cards are effectively on the table, weeks before Trump submits a nominee.
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The Washington Post's Paul Kane writes that, if Democrats filibuster the pick (demanding 60 votes for passage), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could do what Democrats did before him -- eliminate the filibuster for a Supreme Court pick (where Gorsuch needs only a simple majority).
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Which party the filibuster advantages or disadvantages depends on the current state of politics — in 2005-2006, filibustering frustrated Republicans; in 2009-2010, it frustrated Democrats; in 2017-2018, Donald Trump issued the clearest call for filibuster abolition that we've seen from any president.
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While It made good sense in 2628 to use the 28500 vote constitutional option to put an end to systematic unconstitutional abuse of the filibuster rules, the threatened filibuster of the Gorsuch nomination does not raise an issue of systematic abuse of the rules.
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"An attempted filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee is rare, and to do so in this context, with such an eminently qualified and brilliant judge, is nothing short of obstructionism," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said, noting Leahy's comments against taking part in a filibuster.
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Some progressives have argued that maintaining the filibuster would eliminate any chance Democrats have of making sweeping reforms if they take back the Senate with fewer than 60 seats, as it would be difficult to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
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They can repeal major parts of the existing law without facing a filibuster, but they would not be able put in place a full replacement in the same measure, because arcane budget rules limit what can be included in such a filibuster-proof bill.
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Chris Murphy ended his high profile, 14-hour filibuster calling for votes on gun control legislation.
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Without the option to filibuster, Democrats in the Senate have few methods of obstructing Trump's nominees.
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I don't agree with those who think Democrats should filibuster anyone who isn't Garland, as Sen.
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The final vote tallies: The filibuster: 55-45 The vote to invoke nuclear option: 52-48
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There are 52 Senate Republicans, but they would need 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
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Some of your fellow Senate Democrats have basically promised to filibuster any nominee the president picks.
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The immediate death of the filibuster rule may not seem like an obvious benefit for Democrats.
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He couldn't break a Democratic filibuster on the nomination of current Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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But blaming the filibuster for why House Republicans torched the immigration bill is just a pretense.
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The Senate used to impose 60 vote barrier to overcome a filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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Between the lines: Trump has resumed his longtime campaign to get McConnell to abandon the filibuster.
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The 53-44 vote on Tuesday fell short of the threshold to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
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Mitch McConnell's only other option would be to invoke the nuclear option and bypass the filibuster.
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They also suggested that they could filibuster that bill if their Flint package was not approved.
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Cory Booker tweeted that he was that he was "grateful" for Murphy's leadership after the filibuster.
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If Senate Democrats were to filibuster, however, that would raise the threshold needed to 60 votes.
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Until recently, his tax cuts would have been vulnerable to a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
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Had Senate Republicans blocked any fiscal stimulus move in 43, that might have prompted filibuster reform.
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I'd get rid of the filibuster so you don't need a supermajority to pass routine legislation.
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"We should not be doing anything to mess with the strength of the filibuster," says Sen.
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The process allows Congress bypass a Democratic filibuster and pass a bill with a simple majority.
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Even in the best-case scenario, Senate Republicans would employ the filibuster to block the administration.
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More than 45 Democrats have said they will filibuster, meaning this vote is expected to fail.
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Budget reforms in 1974 also created the reconciliation process, which protected budgetary packages from a filibuster.
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Chris Coons, D-Delaware, was the 41st Democrat to pledge to oppose Gorsuch, guaranteeing a filibuster.
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Reconciliation allows Congress to approve legislation covering spending and taxes without the threat of a filibuster.
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Senators in both parties are worried about how the fight over Gorsuch will affect the filibuster.
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Scott Walker (R) called on Republicans immediately after Trump won the presidency to ditch the filibuster.
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With just 52 Republican senators, the GOP majority is too small to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
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It's not clear whether Democrats would be able to sustain a filibuster on any Trump pick.
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CRA resolutions require only a majority vote in the Senate, meaning Democrats can't filibuster the resolution.
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"The core of the Senate is the legislative filibuster," McConnell told USA Today in early April.
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She was reportedly one of the few Democrats to publicly say she would oppose a filibuster.
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Wyden told Vice News after the election that he would filibuster any legislation on those lines.
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In response, Republicans voted to change Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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"This will be the first, and last, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee," McConnell insisted.
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Republicans have used reconciliation previously to get around the Senate's filibuster and approve an ObamaCare repeal.
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If they join the filibuster, they risk losing as a result of angering the Trump voters.
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Even if the Democrats can maintain the filibuster, they are unlikely to block the Gorsuch appointment.
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But if he's not going to eliminate the filibuster, what's going to happen to his ideas?
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That's how the Senate usually works, but Trump's comments suggest eliminating the possibility of a filibuster.
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Getting rid of the filibuster would improve American democracy if it were combined with other reforms.
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The Senate could remove barriers like the filibuster, which prevents a simple majority from effecting change.
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In the Senate, they can be approved with a simple majority and circumvent a Democratic filibuster.
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If Senate Republicans want Gorsuch, they should have to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations.
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Currently 60 votes are needed to approve cloture, and thus end a filibuster, on a nominee.
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Senate Republicans rebuffed President Trump's Twitter demand on Tuesday for an end to the legislative filibuster.
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" And as Kavanaugh dragged out an answer, Feinstein joked that he was learning how to "filibuster.
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Republicans changed the rules of the Senate to win that April battle, preventing a Democratic filibuster.
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With filibuster option removed, they also made it possible to confirm a less consensus future conservative.
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When DACA was not included in the House's temporary government funding measure, a Senate filibuster ensued.
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Rescission bills only need simple majorities to pass and are not subject to a Senate filibuster.
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Paul on Sunday vowed to do "whatever it takes" to block Haspel's nomination, including a filibuster.
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Merkley has been trying to rally Senate Democrats for an all-out filibuster on Trump's nominee.
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GOP leaders will pursue tax reform under special budget "reconciliation" rules preventing a Senate Democratic filibuster.
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It's not clear if Democrats would be able to support a filibuster on any Trump pick.
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In 1968, a Senate filibuster kept Associate Justice Abe Fortas from being promoted to chief justice.
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I think you will see a change in the filibuster rule when it comes to judges.
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The Senate paved the way for the filibuster through a possibly inadvertent rule adjustment in 1806.
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But Republicans could also use any filibuster or veto to paint Democrats as weak on defense.
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His difficulties then stemmed in part from Democratic senators use of the filibuster to block legislation.
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Should they decide to filibuster over lack of money for treatment programs, the legislation could founder.
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Though Republicans have a 53-85033 majority, they need seven Democrats to get around a filibuster.
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During the George W. Bush administration, for example, he voted 85033 times to filibuster judicial nominees.
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But it could be a useful way to get around the threat of a Senate filibuster.
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In late 2013, Senate Democrats voted to render the filibuster inapplicable for lower federal court nominations.
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Open to expanding the Supreme Court, imposing term limits on justices, and eliminating the Senate filibuster.
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But the bill's odds of success are low given the likelihood that Democrats would filibuster it.
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McConnell is using fast-track budget rules for the legislation that prevent a filibuster from Democrats.
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That means if the minority senators feel they have not been fairly treated, they might filibuster.
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Gorsuch only got through last year after Republicans ended the legislative filibuster for the Supreme Court.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) agree on one thing: the elimination of the filibuster in the Senate.
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Even worse, the Senate Filibuster Rule will.... ...never allow the Republicans to pass even great legislation.
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When you look at rule, there is no distinction between the filibuster on nominations and legislation.
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He also tweeted that the effort isn't dead, and encouraged lawmakers to abolish the legislative filibuster.
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If one more senator gets on board, Democrats can prevent a filibuster and pass the bill.
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Earlier this month, Warren announced her support for getting rid of the legislative filibuster at Rev.
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The good news is that it's still possible to defeat an extreme nominee without a filibuster.
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Under Senate rules, ending such a filibuster will require three-fifths of the Senate: 2023 votes.
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The repeal bill will be handled through a budget process called reconciliation, which avoids a filibuster.
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Is scrapping the Electoral College or the filibuster truly more extreme than any of those demands?
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Senate Republicans would need at least nine Democratic votes to beat back a Democratic-led filibuster.
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Our framers never intended for the majority will to be stymied by use of the filibuster.
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They could theoretically eliminate the filibuster, but a lot of senators sound reluctant to do that.
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Second, Trump tried to make the case that the Senate should just change its filibuster rule.
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Even worse, the Senate Filibuster Rule will.... ...never allow the Republicans to pass even great legislation.
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On Tuesday night, progressive organizations demanded that Senate Democrats filibuster Neil Gorsuch, Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
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One option is they can use the budget reconciliation process, which is protected from the filibuster.
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Do you need to start with the filibuster before you can do any of those plans?
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As a result, the opposition can no longer filibuster to challenge controversial decisions by the government.
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This latest power grab has prompted concern about when the Senate will end the legislative filibuster.
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For example, Byrd partook in a lengthy filibuster effort against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, here .
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The Senate filibuster, meanwhile, will require Republican votes on most legislation, even if Democrats take control.
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A Republican-led Senate filibuster blocked Obama's renewed effort to pass universal background checks in 260.
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Graham's bill is just an attempt to get under the no-filibuster wire with Obamacare repeal.
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The agreement "passed" on the strength of a 42-vote Democratic filibuster, against bipartisan, majority opposition.
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He referred to Mr. McConnell only in passing, calling on him to abolish the Senate filibuster.
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"I'm not crazy about getting rid of the filibuster," as he put it in one interview.
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Background reading: • Matt Flegenheimer's reporting on Monday that Democrats have vowed to filibuster Judge Gorsuch's nomination.
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That's critical, because Republicans have a 52-seat majority, and overcoming a filibuster requires 60 votes.
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Even worse, the Senate Filibuster Rule will never allow the Republicans to pass even great legislation.
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Their filibuster concluded almost 15 hours later after a marathon of speeches for stricter firearms regulations.
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For instance, Biden, unlike Warren, is against ending the filibuster — a demerit in the Sunrise tally.
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In The Times, Jennifer Steinhauer has a smart look at the current state of the filibuster.
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I learned I'd love for the filibuster to go until there's something I want filibustered. Right?
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"Understand this: Many people on this stage do not support rolling back the filibuster," she said.
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But in the long run, if Republicans remove the filibuster for legislation, they may regret it.
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It would effectively end the legislative filibuster and McConnell has shown no interest in doing that.
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But Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has personified the conflict over getting rid of the filibuster.
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The Democrats did away with the filibuster for cabinet nominees, and their reward was Betsy DeVos.
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This is what Mr. McConnell has threatened if Democrats muster enough votes to filibuster Judge Gorsuch.
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Yet McConnell pledged even after that action that the legislative filibuster was not in danger. Sen.
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Friday morning to end a Democratic filibuster of DeVos and advance her nomination to final vote.
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Of course, the opportunity to employ the filibuster occurs much more frequently than a presidential impeachment.
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On Tuesday, by a vote of 60-38, the Senate defeated a filibuster of the bill.
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"I am never inclined to filibuster a SCOTUS nom," he wrote, leaving the requisite wiggle room.
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Lower budget numbers to appease conservatives, but risk a centrist revolt and a Senate filibuster.2.
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McConnell invokes the nuclear option, eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court picks to advance Gorsuch's nomination.
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Another 2628 percent of those polled said the rules on the filibuster should remain the same.
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In the Senate, Democratic votes will also be necessary to prevent or overcome a filibuster. Rep.
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Rather than get rid of the filibuster, he proposed using a process known as budget reconciliation.
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The budget includes reconciliation instructions that would shield a tax reform package from a Democratic filibuster.
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A Senate without the filibuster rule becomes a majoritarian body where the majority simply takes control.
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So filibuster reform prevented Republicans from holding many judicial vacancies open until Trump could fill them.
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Any such action might, in the near term, require ending the filibuster custom in the Senate.
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He also advocated for ending the filibuster, and called for getting rid of the electoral college.
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By contrast, most legislation in the Senate requires 60 votes to overcome a potential filibuster. Sen.
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Democratic opposition could, in turn, prompt the Trump administration and its allies to eviscerate the filibuster.
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If Democrats attempt to block the nomination, Republicans may move to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.
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The filibuster arose largely as a historical accident, as Sarah Binder of George Washington University notes.
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Opinion Columnist Almost none of the Democratic senators running for president want to abolish the filibuster.
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That allows policymakers to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senate, evading a filibuster.
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Of course, Trump isn't the person who gets to decide if the filibuster stays or goes.
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If Democrats do filibuster the pick, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, could seek a change in Senate rules to prevent a filibuster on Supreme Court nominees, commonly referred to as the "nuclear option" because it would eliminate a longstanding tool of the minority party.
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Many senators are worried that the if Republicans weaken the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, in the same way Democrats did for all other presidential appointments in 2013, the chamber would be on a slippery slope and the filibuster for legislation could someday be diminished too.
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RELATED: Democrats' 'unity tour' is highlighting their many divisions Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, was successfully able to muster a filibuster against Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, forcing Republicans to invoke the "nuclear option" taking away the filibuster for future high court picks.
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Judiciary Committee Republicans blasted Democrats for pursuing what they called the first "partisan filibuster" of a Supreme Court nominee - there was a successful bipartisan filibuster five decades ago against a Democratic president's nominee - and said it would come to naught because of the threatened rule change.
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to change the Senate's long-standing rules in order to eliminate the ability to use a procedural hurdle called a filibuster against Supreme Court nominees like Trump's pick, Neil Gorsuch, if a Democratic filibuster succeeds as expected in blocking a confirmation vote.
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" When we inquired about what's tougher physically, his walk across Connecticut or the nearly 15-hour filibuster he led in June calling for gun control reform, Murphy replied, "This is harder because it's, physically, it's the equivalent of a walking filibuster, six days in a row.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who last year removed the filibuster hurdle for judicial nominations in order to secure the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, has said he will never eliminate the legislative filibuster for as long as he is majority leader.
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A filibuster is a prolonged debate - often around the clock - aimed at blocking progress of an initiative.
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That allows certain bills to bypass the filibuster and advance through the Senate with a simple majority.
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The narrow GOP majority means the party would need at least 8 votes to overcome Schumer's filibuster.
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According to CNN's latest whip count, 26 Democrats are on the record planning to join the filibuster.
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Sen. Susan Collins told CNN's Ted Barrett that she hoped the Democrats will withdraw the filibuster threat.
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The maneuver would help Republicans end a Democratic filibuster next week over Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
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According to official records, there were only three votes to break a filibuster from 1964 to 1965.
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Preserving the filibuster now could give Democrats more leverage in the future, proponents of this strategy say.
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Jeff Merkley of Oregon, told Politico Monday he would filibuster virtually anyone Trump's selects for the court.
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In the Senate, the filibuster will be a frequently threatened parliamentary device to obstruct the Republican agenda.
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And the days of the boring, information-starved, and filibuster-like presidential news conference are truly over.
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We need to fix the filibuster to allow more beneficial legislation to be enacted by President Trump.
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Dick Durbin could vote to end a filibuster, advancing Gorsuch to a final up-or-down vote.
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He finished his filibuster by talking about one of the young boys who died in the tragedy.
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But the filibuster means being chained to the past, because it's a protection of the status quo.
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Past presidents have shown that the filibuster has limited value in stopping a president determined to act.
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Chris Murphy launched a filibuster Wednesday afternoon, calling on the chamber to take action on gun control.
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Until recently, that would have made his tax cuts vulnerable to a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
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"This will be the first, and last, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nomination," McConnell declared Thursday.
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Gillibrand was asked recently about ending the filibuster by Pod Save America's Jon Favreau, and she demurred.
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Ultimately, due to Republican filibuster, nothing came of the bipartisan legislation to strengthen background checks that Sens.
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And, of course, they can't filibuster the actual repeal bill; that's the whole point of using reconciliation.
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But the policy was ultimately torpedoed when moderate Democrats threatened to filibuster any law that included it.
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Inslee has been outspoken in calling on Democrats to kill filibuster rules if they regain the Senate.
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She is expected to rally opposition in the form of a filibuster against changes to the agency.
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But, I think undercutting the rules governing a filibuster are going to have major repercussions going forward.
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A Senate minority simply announced that they had the numbers of conduct a filibuster and that's it.
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CNN's whip count as of Sunday morning showed Democrats nearing a critical mass to maintain a filibuster.
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Most Democrats on the committee have already announced they oppose Gorsuch and will vote to filibuster him.
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Republicans, who hold a 52-48 majority, needed a total of 60 votes to end the filibuster.
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However, even if both were to side with Republicans, it wouldn't be enough to avoid the filibuster.
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RELATED: Neil Gorsuch Fast Facts "The Senate will confirm Judge Gorsuch despite the filibuster," he told CNN.
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Michael Bennet (Colorado) -- Bennet has been quiet this week about how where he'll fall on the filibuster.
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Senate Democrats forced Republicans to "go nuclear" with their filibuster of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's nomination.
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The House narrowly passed the bill in June 2010; but Senate Democrats couldn't break a GOP filibuster.
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Claire McCaskill busts GOP hopes, says she'll vote no on Neil Gorsuch and support a Democratic filibuster.
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As of Sunday evening, only three Democrats said they'd oppose a filibuster, and just eight remained undecided.
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Republicans believe the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation process is their only shot at passing major, transformative legislation.
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That leaves open the threat of a filibuster, a tactic rarely employed for a Supreme Court nomination.
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If they abandon the filibuster, it will fail and they will lose the support of their base.
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Either way, the filibuster would risk causing the loss of even more Democratic Senate seats in 2018.
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So Senate Dems are ready to end their filibuster of the $1.1 billion package to fight Zika?
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"This will be the first, and last, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee," McConnell said Thursday.
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The Democratic filibuster of Gorsuch is about the blatant stealing of a Supreme Court seat, not Gorsuch.
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Strange signed an April 7 letter supporting the filibuster -- backing McConnell's desire to keep it in place.
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It only takes 50 members to say the filibuster also no longer applies to Supreme Court nominees.
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Saturday morning, he went on a Twitter tirade about the need to get rid of the filibuster.
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Annual government spending is always subject to filibuster, and thus, typically requires buy-in from both parties.
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Meanwhile, the Budget Committee chair — deficit hawk or not — has an incentive to preserve the filibuster too.
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But the SCRUB Act has little chance of passing the Senate, as Democrats could filibuster the bill.
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It takes 60 votes (out of 100) or three-fifths of the Senate to break a filibuster.
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In the best case for the Democrats, she would still face a Republican filibuster in the Senate.
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I could spend the next ten hours in a filibuster of woke Democratic hypocrisy on this issue.
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The only leverage that Wyden and Paul have to get a debate and vote is the filibuster.
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Such a maneuver would ultimately fail because a number of Senate Republicans would certainly wage a filibuster.
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Republicans need to find eight Democrats to vote to end debate to break a filibuster against Gorsuch.
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In retrospect, Pelosi's filibuster now looks like it came from a place of weakness, rather than strength.
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Republicans have 28503 seats in the Senate, meaning they need eight Democratic votes to break a filibuster.
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The problem is that with the filibuster rule they have to, they need 2023 more Republicans elected.
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Even without the filibuster, this agenda would rest with relatively conservative Democrats like Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
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Twenty years later, Republican support for the Civil Rights Act prevented a Democratic filibuster from killing it.
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Sources say there hasn't been any discussion within the broader Republican Conference about filibuster reform since Jan.
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What impact will that filibuster have on the ability of the Supreme Court to do its job?
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Doing away with the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees—the so-called "nuclear option"—was once unthinkable.
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Similar to the filibuster, the practice of blue-slipping moderated the president's nominations and empowered individual senators.
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The filibuster drew significant attention online, with supporters tweeting support and encouragement as the hours dragged on.
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Republicans need at least eight Democrats to vote with them in order to block a filibuster. Sen.
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If the bill does get through the House, Republicans face a filibuster from Democrats in the Senate.
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In November 2013, Democrats used the nuclear option to sweep away the filibuster for most judicial nominations.
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They governed by fear, fundamentalism and filibuster rather than good-faith efforts to work with the president.
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Democrats could be taking a big risk if they filibuster President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
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When they had this control, they discovered that the filibuster was a gigantic thorn in their side.
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This was accomplished without resort to a filibuster, by an up-or-down vote of 2900-220006.
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That led Republicans to change the Senate's rules to prevent a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee.
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Although the filibuster successfully killed the bill, Republicans passed it in a special session five days later.
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Republicans would not be able to garner 60 votes in the Senate necessary to overcome a filibuster.
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Demand that the Senate reinstate the rules for allowing the filibuster and requiring the 60-vote threshold.
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But no deal came together, and Republicans went on to curb the filibuster and seat Mr. Gorsuch.
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The Senate passed a budget bill that would protect a $1.5 trillion tax cut from a filibuster.
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Filibuster reform doesn't yet enjoy widespread support among Senate Democrats, but its proponents are growing in numbers.
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Both Warren and Cory Booker talked about ending the filibuster in order to pass major gun legislation.
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"In the past, the filibuster has been used very sparingly," Reid explained to me in May interview.
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"In the past, the filibuster has been used very sparingly," Reid told me in our May interview.
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This all relates too to the filibuster question, which a lot of the presidential candidates are getting.
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If Democrats were able to flip the Senate, eliminating the filibuster could certainly be within their reach.
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Gorsuch's nomination has already come under fire from Senate Democrats, who have threatened to filibuster the pick.
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Absent the filibuster, the Affordable Care Act could've been substantially more generous, and substantially more ambitious. Sen.
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Given the general incompetence of the GOP Congress and the certainty of a filibuster, that seems unlikely.
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Reporters shout, wave their hands, pontificate, issue editorials disguised as questions, filibuster and interrupt the podium speakers.
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It's a good message bill, but this is obviously dead-on-arrival in a filibuster-ridden Senate.
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"I would vote for that," Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said about bringing back the filibuster.
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Using that approach, Republicans would be able to open the refuge to drilling without encountering a filibuster.
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And you'll hand the Senate to the Democrats in the process, maybe with a filibuster-proof majority.
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They'd love to kill the filibuster, a nuclear option the tradition-bound McConnell is loath to deploy.
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A return to a higher-stakes filibuster might make it more politically dangerous and thus less routine.
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Durbin: Doing away with the filibuster would be the 'end of the Senate' 9:2023 a.m. Sen.
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The budget includes special rules that would allow the health-care bill to evade a Senate filibuster.
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Send the reconciliation bill to the floor, protected from filibuster in the Senate, and pass the bill.
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As it stands, the GOP needs to garner at least some Democratic support to overcome a filibuster.
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Strange initially came out in support of the filibuster, siding with McConnell's push to protect the rule.
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Democrats can no longer filibuster presidential appointments, but they have used procedural tactics to slow some down.
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Indeed, if the Supreme Court rules are changed, the Senate's legislative filibuster would be the next target.
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But that bill has fallen twice to a Senate filibuster, once in 2013 and once in 2015.
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That means that even if he wanted to, he could not end the filibuster on his own.
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Although we're ending the filibuster against Supreme Court nominees, we'll still allow the procedure to block legislation.
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But they left the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees untouched, an acknowledgment of the court's exalted status.
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The bill is being passed using a special budget procedure in order to avoid a Senate filibuster.
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"That's the primary cause of the division in the House — is the filibuster in the Senate," Rep.
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Hickenlooper expected to end presidential bid on Thursday MORE (Colo.) Democrats who support a filibuster (44) Sen.
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" In the interview, Mr. Schumer argued that the treatment of Judge Garland was "worse than a filibuster.
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Senate Democrats can also still filibuster any GOP plan to raise defense spending, as in previous years.
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Wendy Davis begins a filibuster of a bill that would tighten regulations on abortion providers in Texas.
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On Wednesday, lawmakers broadly talked about two potential options to circumvent the obstacle presented by the filibuster.
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Under a filibuster, 60 votes would be required to clear hurdles ahead of a final confirmation vote.
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And legislative changes would require the approval of at least eight Senate Democrats to overcome a filibuster.
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Trump, for one, is frustrated: But McConnell has shown no inclination to ditch the filibuster for legislation.
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At the time, civil rights legislation was tied up in Congress, facing a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.
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In November 2013, the Democratic majority unilaterally curtailed the filibuster as it applied to most presidential nominations.
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True, because of the hyper-partisanship in the Senate, the filibuster has been abused in recent years.
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The fate of the filibuster has become a standard question in interviews of the 2020 Democratic candidates.
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If there's one person responsible for the likely eventual final demise of the filibuster, it's Mr. McConnell.
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If there's one person responsible for the likely eventual final demise of the filibuster, it's Mr. McConnell.
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"We should not be doing anything to mess with the strength of the filibuster," says Cory Booker.
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Senate Democrats appear united against the bill, and the filibuster will make that even tougher to overcome.
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Senate Democrats have the 41 votes they need to filibuster Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
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Chris Coons (D-DE) told reporters that he would be joining the Democratic filibuster against Gorsuch's nomination.
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It's official: Senate Democrats are going to try to filibuster Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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And he's vowed never to vote to eliminate the legislative filibuster (something Trump has pushed for lately).
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In that circumstance, they will need some Republican votes to overcome a filibuster and pass anything big.
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This is perhaps the most obvious reason why individual senators have been loath to remove the filibuster.
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And in the Senate on Wednesday, they mounted an old-school, talking filibuster to make that case.
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Chris Murphy (D-CT), who led a 15-hour filibuster in the wake of the Orlando shooting.
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That means they would need eight or nine sympathetic Republican votes to get anything past a filibuster.
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It's like killing the filibuster, but doing it in the least defensible and most extended way possible.
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At the time, the bill stopped short of the 60 votes needed to prevent a Republican filibuster.
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