Most bills can be filibustered in the Senate, and over the past decade or so, the norm has been established that any bill that can be filibustered will be filibustered.
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McConnell noted Thursday that Republicans filibustered only one of Obama's nominees during the former President's first year in office, while Democrats have filibustered all but one of Trump's.
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"McConnell has never filibustered a Supreme Court nominee," Stewart said.
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Fortas' nomination was filibustered in the Senate and eventually withdrawn.
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They did so after Republicans filibustered Obama's appeals court nominees.
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And certain members in Congress filibustered — twice — to block Sen.
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Democrats filibustered for several hours, then there was a recess.
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Senate Democrats filibustered the Zika funding measure late last month.
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The legislation was ultimately filibustered and defeated in the Senate.
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NIXON: That was the one where he filibustered his own bill.
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Only one high court nominee, Abe Fortas, has been successfully filibustered.
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Critically for Republicans, the resolutions cannot be filibustered in the Senate.
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Obama himself filibustered Samuel Alito's nomination to the court in 2006.
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First Republicans threatened to filibuster judges, then Democrats actually filibustered one.
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" This last charge is especially dishonest coming from the same Democrats who filibustered the first black woman to serve on the D.C. Circuit and filibustered the first Hispanic nominee to the same court seven times "because . . .
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He filibustered to try to end the draft during the Vietnam War.
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Unlike the tax bill itself, corrections can be filibustered in the Senate.
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Any Trump nomination that wasn't Merrick Garland should have been preemptively filibustered.
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Those cuts, as part of a reconciliation package, could not be filibustered.
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Translation: Immune to being filibustered, their plan will likely become law very quickly.
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Hellerstedt, a challenge to the abortion restrictions that you filibustered and fought against.
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Chris Murphy and others filibustered for more than 15 hours to demand action.
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It was a potent threat, considering Supreme Court nominees can still be filibustered.
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The Southerners delayed and filibustered the amendment until it died, finally, on Sept.
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But it has one big advantage: Legislation passed this way cannot be filibustered.
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Thus, any bill that cuts their funding can be filibustered by Senate Democrats. Massive.
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From George Washington to George W. Bush, only 68 presidential nominees had been filibustered.
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Shelby said last Thursday that he hopes the Republican bill isn't filibustered by Democrats.
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If the measure can be filibustered, it has no chances of passing the Senate.
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Barack Obama had won reelection in 2012 and gotten filibustered on virtually everything he tried.
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CRA bills can't be filibustered, but they do need to be signed by the president.
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The committee nonetheless reported the nominee to the full Senate, where the Democrats filibustered her.
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This bill is likely to be filibustered in the Senate and unlikely to eventually pass.
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The resolutions cannot be filibustered in the Senate, allowing the GOP to overcome Democratic opposition.
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If bills can't be filibustered at the starting gate, the Senate majority leader — now Sen.
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What's happening: As expected, Democrats filibustered Gorsuch, and Republicans didn't have the 60 votes to override.
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Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young) as she filibustered against a bill to make Planned Parenthood funding discretionary.
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Correction: This article originally stated that Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court was filibustered.
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It also cannot be filibustered, making it easier for Congress to send to the President's desk.
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The last time was in 22019 when Democrats filibustered President George W. Bush's nominee, Samuel Alito.
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Rand Paul filibustered to delay the vote on the bill over the expansion of the deficit.
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"They've blocked all legislation, they've blocked nominations, they've filibustered all kinds of things," Mr. Reid said.
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McConnell was furious with Pelosi, but Senate Democrats easily filibustered the attempt to advance the bill.
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John McCain (R-AZ) and Senate Democrats repeatedly filibustered to force votes on campaign finance reform.
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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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The budget, unlike other bills, cannot be filibustered, so Republicans can pass it without any Democratic votes.
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But Ryan has to do something to avoid two or four years of filibustered gridlock in Washington.
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Reconciliation bills fast-track legislation dealing with taxing and spending, and cannot be filibustered in the Senate.
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They effectively filibustered his nomination to the court, violating a number of political norms in the process.
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So now these executive nominations can't be filibustered and only need a simple majority to get through.
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McConnell's minority filibustered to try to block not only controversial bills and nominations but also uncontroversial ones.
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Since the 1970s, however, the Senate can proceed with other legislation while a particular bill is filibustered.
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The resolution can be passed with only a simple majority and cannot be filibustered in the Senate.
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Bork's nomination was defeated by the Senate in a 42-58 vote; his nomination was not filibustered.
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Democrats also filibustered nine other Bush circuit-court nominees, all of whom had majority support in the Senate.
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However, the Senate successfully filibustered the nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to become Chief Justice in 1968.
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In 2014, he filibustered for 21 hours on the Senate floor in an attempt to prevent its implementation.
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Also, this legislation has special treatment under House and Senate rules and can't be filibustered in the Senate.
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The measure cannot be filibustered, meaning the Republicans could move it through both chambers without any Democratic support.
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Democrats filibustered the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch and Republicans voted to change Senate rules to bypass the filibuster.
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As recently as the George W. Bush administration, however, it was still the case that not everything was filibustered.
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"Everything, anything that President Obama wanted -- they filibustered things they agreed with just to slow things down," Reid said.
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"And Mr. Philbin filibustered because he had no answer," Schumer said, referring to deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin.
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"I have not filibustered many issues, but I think the stakes are enormous," Mr. Wyden said in an interview.
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In July 1922, the NAACP lobbied for a federal anti-lynching bill that was ultimately filibustered by the Senate.
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That process would allow Gorsuch to move forward with 51 votes, instead of the 85033 needed if he's filibustered.
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"Filibustered and Unfiltered: America Reads the Mueller Report" will take place at the Arc, a Long Island City venue.
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Under the law that created such resolutions, they are not technically laws and cannot be filibustered in the Senate.
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However, the Republican Congress in the last many years have filibustered everything so that 60 votes became the vote.
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As things now stand, effectively all Democratic bills are filibustered, meaning that all bills require a supermajority to pass.
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Instead, two years after his nomination, they made Estrada the first appeals court nominee in history to be successfully filibustered.
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In the end, a vote on Manchin-Toomey was filibustered, yet it garnered the support of 54 senators, a majority.
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An earlier version of this article misstated which civil rights bill was filibustered by Senator Strom Thurmond for 24 hours.
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On Thursday, after Senate Democrats filibustered for 15 hours, their Republican colleagues agreed to hold a vote on two measures.
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Chris Murphy and other Democratic lawmakers filibustered for 15 hours in order to force a vote on a new gun bill.
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"It is my understanding that never has there been one filibustered," he said in an interview with "Closing Bell " on Monday.
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Any climate change legislation will either get nine Republican votes in the Senate (ha ha) or be filibustered and die. Done.
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Notably, budget resolutions can't be filibustered, and because they're concurrent resolutions rather than laws, they don't require the president's signature either.
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One is the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to pass joint resolutions, which cannot be filibustered, nullifying executive branch regulations.
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Instead, policy changes like that would likely have to be considered under normal Senate order, which means they could be filibustered.
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Such a bill can be used to repeal significant parts of the health law and, critically, is immune from being filibustered.
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Senate debate on a reconciliation bill is normally limited to 20 hours, so it cannot be filibustered on the Senate floor.
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"All the significant policy underpinnings of Obamacare were contained in a bill that could be filibustered," says former Senate parliamentarian Alan Frumin.
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Democrats vowed to block his appointment, though a change to the rules means that Supreme Court picks can no longer be filibustered.
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During that time, Republicans were able to use a special expedited process that protects the sanctions bill from being filibustered by opponents.
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In season 5, Olivia made the difficult choice to have an abortion, all while Mellie filibustered to protect funding for Planned Parenthood.
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And since Republicans hold 503 senate seats compared to 44 for Democrats (plus two independents), virtually all Senate action today is filibustered.
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The Texas senator filibustered, offering reason after reason that Mr. Trump should not be the nominee, but never directly answered the question.
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Senate Democrats filibustered the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and there were only 56 votes to end the filibuster.
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He blasted Republicans who filibustered the bill, then criticized TV news networks, saying that they had failed to report on the issue.
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They broke tradition and filibustered his initial economic stimulus plan presented to Congress during the initial "honeymoon" period for a new president.
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In doing this, [a bill] gets to go through a quick process in the Senate and the House; it can't be filibustered.
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Dyer introduced the bill at each subsequent session, and in 1922, the bill passed the House only to be filibustered in the Senate.
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Dyer introduced the bill at each subsequent session, and in 22014, the bill passed the House only to be filibustered in the Senate.
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Because of rule changes made by Democrats in party-line votes when Reid ran the chamber, Trump's Cabinet nominees could not be filibustered.
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Finally, because this reform can be filibustered, Republicans will be forced to use the nuclear option to pass it over the Democrats' objections.
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In 2013, Senate Democrats used an obscure set of parliamentary procedures to change the rules so most presidential appointments could no longer be filibustered.
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Republicans changed the Senate rules last year so that Supreme Court nominees cannot be filibustered, meaning only 51 votes will be required to confirm.
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Sparer believes Obamacare will undergo major changes, with Republicans repealing significant portions of the law through the budget reconciliation process, which cannot be filibustered.
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But Republicans will use this more complex process because it has one big advantage: Legislation passed through the budget reconciliation process cannot be filibustered.
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Budget resolutions can't be filibustered, so if Republicans vote to include reconciliation instructions for Obamacare repeal, there's nothing the opposition can do about it.
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Reconciliation would make it easier for Republicans to pass a tax-reform bill, since bills considered through reconciliation cannot be filibustered in the Senate.
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The procedural move would allow his nomination to move forward with a 51-vote majority, rather than the 60 needed if Gorsuch is filibustered.
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In order to use the legislative procedure known as reconciliation, which can't be filibustered in the Senate, Congress must pass a budget resolution first.
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Bills passed through this process can't be filibustered, but also can't be used to enact legislation that increases deficits outside of the budget window.
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Because Democrats changed the filibuster rules when they controlled the chamber, it only takes a majority vote to confirm nominees, who cannot be filibustered.
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"Unless #JudgeGorsuch provides REAL answers to written Qs & senators are given ample time for review & debate, he will be filibustered," he wrote on Twitter.
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For one thing, most of these changes would require passing appropriations bills, which can, and definitely would, be filibustered by Democrats in the Senate.
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But Supreme Court nominees — at least as of now — can be still filibustered, which means that 60 senators must vote to keep the nomination alive.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW ACT IS A TOOK CONGRESS HAS TO REACH BACK AND GET RID OF REGULATIONS AND THAT CANNOT BE FILIBUSTERED IN THE SENATE.
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In November 2013, a pile of judicial nominations filibustered by Republicans were clogging up the Senate, creating emergency shortages in federal courts across the country.
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But this talking point ignores the fact that nominees without two positive blue slips were often filibustered on the Senate floor after a committee hearing.
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Then came Wendy Davis, the Fort Worth politician who filibustered for abortion rights on the floor of the Texas Senate for 13 hours in 2013.
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While the bill would easily pass the House, it would likely be filibustered in the Senate by Democrats who have protested changes to the CFPB.
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Passing a budget resolution that includes those instructions will mean that the legislation can pass through the budget reconciliation process, in which bills cannot be filibustered.
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Wendy Davis, who famously filibustered HB2, the omnibus 2013 Texas anti-abortion bill that includes the two restrictions at issue in Whole Woman's Health v. Cole.
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Pryor has been strongly opposed by the Democrats in the past who repeatedly filibustered his nomination to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals a decade ago.
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And if a Dem even makes it to the Oval Office, odds are their legislative ambitions will be filibustered into oblivion by a GOP-controlled Senate.
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Resolutions passed under the CRA cannot be filibustered, and prohibit the agency in question, in this case the FCC, from adopting "substantially similar" rules in the future.
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With majorities in the House and Senate -- CRA resolutions cannot be filibustered -- and a Republican president, the GOP is on the verge of doing in the rule.
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But the House committees that wrote the bill counter that those provisions can't be repealed under Senate budget rules that prevent the repeal bill from being filibustered.
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When Democrats take back the Senate — whenever that actually happens — it will be well within their power to modify Senate rules about which bills can be filibustered.
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When the bill came up for a vote in the Senate in 1983, Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina filibustered in an effort to kill the legislation.
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The difference is that from day one Trump has enjoyed a GOP Senate majority and the new rules whereby judicial nominees cannot be filibustered by the minority.
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But his nomination stalled -- blocked from a vote along with other judicial appointments in the run-up to the presidential election -- and afterward, Democrats filibustered judicial nominees.
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While the repeal step might be pretty easy to do through the budget reconciliation process, which can't be filibustered, replacing it will probably be more complicated, as Vox.
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The move was supported by Richard Nixon, then the president, but filibustered by senators from the South, who worried it would weaken the electoral power of their region.
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Democrats, infuriated by the GOP's treatment of President Obama and Merrick Garland, filibustered Neil Gorsuch — the kind of broadly qualified nominee who would've passed easily in previous eras.
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Back in 2010, Senate Republicans filibustered the appointment of the exceptionally well-qualified economist Peter Diamond — a literal Nobel Prize winner — to a Fed Board of Governors seat.
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Meanwhile, the Democrats staved off a leadership challenge to Nancy Pelosi, got through a fight for party chair, and filibustered Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch without major fratricide.
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The Senate has not yet decided on a date to vote on the bill Murphy filibustered for, though some reports say it could be as early as Monday.
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The reflex is so ingrained that they have habituated multiple generations of journalists into asserting that Democrats filibustered Bork, President Ronald Reagan's nominee, when no such filibuster occurred.
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Efforts to repeal rules under the Congressional Review Act cannot be filibustered, giving Republicans a powerful tool to slash regulations with only a majority vote in each chamber.
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Mr. Helms had filibustered the bill and denounced Dr. King on the floor of the Senate as someone who advocated "action-oriented Marxism" and other "radical political" views.
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Less noted is the next step: Southern Democrats filibustered the vote-counting process in the US House, creating a constitutional crisis resolved (allegedly) by the Compromise of 1877.
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That is, the minority has filibustered (or threatened to filibuster) the motion to proceed to those bills to extract concessions from the majority on funding levels and policy riders.
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The long-term impacts of some of these decisions will be muted by countervailing political forces (midnight rules overturned, early morning regulatory reforms filibustered or weakened in the Senate).
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And because Flake is deploying a rarely-used legislative vehicle called the Congressional Review Act, which cannot be filibustered, there is virtually nothing Democrats can do to stop him.
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In 2013, Reid was unhappy because a number of Obama nominations for judges for the U.S. Courts of Appeals and other administrative positions were being filibustered by Senate Republicans.
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Rand Paul (R-KY) filibustered the spending and budget bill for increasing the national debt too much, technically allowing the government to run out of money for several hours.
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The news: Senate Republicans used the "nuclear option" Thursday to change the chamber's rules so that Supreme Court nominations could no longer be filibustered by a minority of senators.
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I filibustered Brennan's nomination to head the CIA in 2013, and his behavior in government and out of it demonstrate why he should not be allowed near classified information.
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After Democrats held together Thursday morning and filibustered President Trump's nominee, Republicans voted to lower the threshold for advancing Supreme Court nominations from 60 votes to a simple majority.
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A motion to proceed to its consideration in the Senate was filibustered to death by Democrats; and the House didn't even bring such a disapproval resolution to the floor.
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Liberal senators filibustered the bill, and although Biden was against busing, he opposed efforts to end the filibuster because doing so would have stripped anti-busing provisions from the bill.
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McCain famously called Cruz and other, less militarily adventurous members of Congress "wacko birds" when they filibustered John Brennan's nomination to direct the CIA over the Obama administration's drone policy.
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"Resolutions of disapproval" passed under the CRA cannot be filibustered, and prohibit the agency in question, in this case the FCC, from adopting "substantially similar" privacy rules in the future.
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Because the measure is being moved through a law that allows Congress to rescind recently finalized rules, the bill cannot be filibustered in the Senate, raising its odds for success.
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They opposed a National Labor Relations Board that could safeguard employees' rights to organize and prevent unfair labor practices, so they filibustered the president's nominees to serve on that board.
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Instead, he said his administration and congressional allies could pass policies by attaching them to budget reconciliation bills, which cannot be filibustered by the minority party, according to Senate rules.
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The trending hashtag #YesAllWomen after the UC Santa Barbara shooting was a fourth-wave campaign, and so was the trending hashtag #StandWithWendy when Wendy Davis filibustered a Texas abortion law.
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After the resolution passes, Congress must pass a separate budget bill to repeal major aspects of the law -- something that cannot be filibustered by Democrats under the rules of the Senate.
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Onder was additionally fired up from the fact that a bill promoting the rights of misleading, anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers in St. Louis was filibustered by Democrats the night before.
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So Paul filibustered the bill, delaying passage to 5:30 am and technically causing a brief shutdown, even though there were easily enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill.
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The Senate is planning to pass the AHCA through its reconciliation process, which only requires 50 votes (because it can't be filibustered and force a 60-vote cloture motion to pass).
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Mr. Cruz also filibustered through a question from the moderators about his $1 million in loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, painting himself as under attack by the mainstream news media.
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Republican lawmakers considered eliminating the filibuster, allowing all actions to proceed with only a majority vote, in 2005 when Democrats filibustered a number of former President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
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Opposed members of Congress could then pursue legislation to reverse this decision through fast-track procedures that guarantee a Senate floor debate, though this legislation could still be filibustered or vetoed.
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Yet Republicans set out from day one to derail and obstruct his agenda, denying him easy victories, exacting a political price for the few accomplishments trickling out of a filibustered Senate.
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Wendy Davis made national headlines in 2013 when she filibustered for 11 hours on the floor of the Texas State Senate against a bill that restricted abortion access in the state.
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First, the Republicans certainly can't complain about the Democrats planning to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch, because they effectively filibustered Judge Merrick Garland in 2016 by refusing any consideration of his nomination.
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Such bills, which cannot be filibustered and thus can pass with only 50 Senate votes (along with Vice President Mike Pence's tiebreaking vote), must adhere to the so-called Byrd rule.
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Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, filibustered the bill, saying that Dr. King "appears to have welcomed collaboration with Communists" and distributed a 300-page packet detailing Dr. King's supposed treachery.
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Democrats are hopeful to peel off at least three Republicans because the CRA can't be filibustered and therefore can pass with 50 votes and a tie-breaking vote by the vice president.
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In 2010, a Senate bill to provide medical care to 9/85033 responders had majority support, yet could not achieve the supermajority of 60 votes to stop those who filibustered the measure.
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So Sanders filibustered, mentioning Biden three times only by his title — but never saying his name — on the Senate floor as he blasted the deal the then-vice president negotiated with Republicans.
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Republicans attempted to block (via filibuster) confirmation votes on only two of Obama's first nominees, whereas Democrats today have filibustered every single one of the 14 Trump nominees brought up for confirmation.
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When Donald Trump was elected and appointed Gorsuch to fill Scalia&aposs seat, apoplectic Democrats made a fatal error: Instead of keeping their powder dry until Kennedy resigned, they filibustered Gorsuch&aposs nomination.
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Throughout these appearances, Page frequently filibustered, went on tangents, and worked himself into a state of high dudgeon while maintaining that he was completely innocent of any wrongdoing and was being unjustly smeared.
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George Norris of Nebraska along with 11 colleagues filibustered the bill, and in response, Wilson urged the Senate to adopt a rule allowing for a supermajority of 67 senators to kill a filibuster.
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There are two big appeals to using CRA review on prior regulatory implementation: They cannot be filibustered, and if CRA is used to overrule a regulation, the regulation can't be re-implemented again.
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Trump's pick to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court could face a bruising confirmation process, especially because that nominee can be filibustered and would likely need 85033 votes.
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Passing the measure through the House and Senate would provide key procedural help for the tax measure because it sets the stage for follow-on legislation that can't be filibustered by Senate Democrats.
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It says something about the strange congruence between the libertarian moment and the politics of 2018 that the C.I.A. chief Paul filibustered five years ago, John Brennan, is now a furious Trump critic.
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If they embark on a plan to pass legislation that adds to the deficit and cannot be filibustered by Democrats, Senate budget rules dictate that the tax cuts would expire after a decade.
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Cloture forces a Senate vote but also obligates the leadership to allow 30 hours of debate on the filibustered matter, effectively throwing sand in the gears of the already slow-moving legislative process.
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"This is the first election in which Republicans are paying a price for their position on guns," said Murphy who filibustered for more than 14 hours over the summer calling for more gun control.
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Let Her Speak by Mario Correa received a total of 42 recommendations, and tells the true story of Senator Wendy Davis who filibustered for 24 hours to save abortion clinics in Texas in 2013.
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In January, shortly after Trump's inauguration, she approached McConnell to propose that they attach the ANWR provision to a bill that could not be filibustered, and thus would require only 50 votes to pass.
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"From day one, Senate Democrats have shamelessly obstructed, stalled, and filibustered the confirmations of hundreds of talented men and women who are eager to come to Washington, D.C., to make a difference," he said.
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The Senate is expected to take the first step by Thursday morning, approving parliamentary language in a budget resolution that would fast-track a repeal bill that could not be filibustered in the Senate.
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That meant that any resolution of approval or disapproval would be subject to the normal process of amendments and motions, and could be filibustered in the Senate until 60 senators voted to invoke cloture.
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Making matters worse, Republicans have given up on getting any Democratic support for their reforms, which means they need to pass the bill through the narrow channel of budget reconciliation so it can't be filibustered.
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A repeal of large chunks of the law can occur as early as January because the GOP plans to use a fast-track budget process that cannot be filibustered under the rules of the Senate.
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Here's what's key: Under the rules of the budget process, legislation to meet reconciliation instructions cannot be filibustered, which is important because there are not 60 votes for ANWR drilling in the closely divided Senate.
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Here's a look at who said what: President Obama The president was reminded of the time he filibustered the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2006 while serving as a senator from Illinois.
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They opposed a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that could vigorously enforce federal firearms laws, so they filibustered the president's nomination of Todd Jones to be its director, despite his considerable record.
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If the House of Representatives passes the same measure — and they plan to do so later this week — it will go into effect, and make sure that Obamacare repeal cannot be filibustered by Senate Democrats.
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The four votes come after Murphy filibustered for nearly 15 hours on the Senate floor on Wednesday in an effort to pressure Republicans to pass gun control legislation that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying guns.
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Democrats counter that Republicans endlessly filibustered bills when they were in the minority and the only reason Republicans have been able to pass anything now is because Democrats have declined to use the same destructive tactics.
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Senate Democrats and Republicans are playing chicken over whether President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court will be filibustered — and whether Republicans will go "nuclear" and change Senate rules to prevent Democrats from blocking Neil Gorsuch.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said it was "absurd" Democrats filibustered the bill and said he hoped they would feel pressure as they explained to their constituents this weekend why they voted against the money.
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A visibly angry Murphy told The Washington Post Monday night that Republicans chose to "sell weapons to ISIS" as the gun control measure for which he had filibustered 15 hours was defeated on a party-line vote.
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A Senate Democrat announced Monday that he will filibuster Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court — setting up what would be only the second time in modern history that a nominee to the Court has been filibustered.
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Even after the House and Senate enact a budget resolution, the spending cuts would have to be codified in appropriations bills or some kind of overarching spending package — both of which could be filibustered by Senate Democrats.
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The one nice thing about the CRA is that it's easy to squeeze into the legislative calendar: it only takes 30 senators to put it on there; it can be called to order quickly; and can't be filibustered.
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Wendy Davis, a Texas state senator who drew national attention when she filibustered a controversial abortion bill in her state, said she'd be happy to let Missouri lawmakers borrow her shoes as they stand up for their beliefs.
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Tumblr eventually removed Crystal Castles from the lineup, but the party went on as planned, complete with an appearance by Texas senator Wendy Davis, who famously filibustered against a bill that would reduce abortion rights in the state.
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But they had one problem: They held only 573 seats in the Senate; under the usual legislative process, where a bill can be filibustered and held up if 40 senators oppose it, Democrats could block any repeal plan.
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While some progressive groups have stepped up to amplify the importance of this court seat, most voters are still unable able to pick Gorsuch out of a line up yet alone explain why he deserves to be filibustered.
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While the budget cannot be filibustered in the Senate and only needs 51 votes (or 50 with Vice President Pence breaking a tie), spending measures to keep the government funded will need 60 votes to break a filibuster.
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But they had one problem: They held only 573 seats in the Senate; under the usual legislative process, where a bill can be filibustered and held up if 41 senators oppose it, Democrats could block any repeal plan.
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In 2013, in a preview of how they would later treat the Garland nomination, Senate Republicans filibustered three Obama nominees to the powerful DC Circuit in an effort to keep Democrats from gaining a majority on that court.
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"I filibustered Brennan's nomination to head the CIA in 2013, and his behavior in government and out of it demonstrate why he should not be allowed near classified information," Paul said in a statement after Trump announced the move.
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And on Tuesday night, in a sign of the likely stalemate, Senate Democrats filibustered a military appropriations bill because it would have allowed for bursting through the caps on military spending without also doing the same for domestic spending.
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A decade ago, a bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of 14 came to an agreement that judicial nominees should only be filibustered in "extraordinary circumstances," a description that does not seem to apply to Gorsuch. Sen.
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If we did have to pull it for the Supreme Court, all that would do would be basically to return the Senate to where it was and has traditionally been prior to 2003 when nobody ever filibustered a court pick.
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Rand Paul (R-KY) filibustered the agreement to prevent the Senate from voting on the new proposal before a midnight deadline, angry over the plan to add hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending in the next few years.
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In fact, he went on so long—some might even say he filibustered—that he answered only 13 questions in nearly 60 minutes.... But in every response, the mindless repetition of talking points gave way to a deeper, more nuanced analysis.
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According to Senate rules, bills specially set up for budget reconciliation cannot be filibustered — that is, they can be advanced through the chamber with just 51 votes (one of which could be a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence).
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Article of the Day Article: Senate Republicans Deploy 'Nuclear Option' to Clear Path for Gorsuch Before Reading Watch the April 5 video above about the Republican threat to "go nuclear" if Democrats filibustered Neil M. Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
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In a cry of rage against the Republicans' nihilistic refusal in 2016 to grant even a hearing to Barack Obama's last nominee to the court, Democrats filibustered to block Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to that stolen Supreme Court seat.
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"Low-income families across America woke up today without the knowledge that their children's health care is safe, all because the Democratic leader filibustered a bipartisan compromise that a majority of senators supported and chose instead a government shutdown," he said.
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Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican, is particularly insidious, according to consumer advocates, because it uses a rare legislative vehicle called the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which cannot be filibustered and prohibits the FCC from adopting "substantially similar" privacy rules in the future.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already used the nuclear option once — back in April 2017, after Democrats filibustered Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, the Senate GOP went nuclear to get Gorsuch and any other Supreme Court nominees confirmed.
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This obstructionism is so endemic that the Democrats even filibustered the nomination of Sigal Mandelker to be the under secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at Treasury — but then almost all Democrats joined together in confirming her by an overwhelming 28500-6900 vote.
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He noted that Vice President Biden argued in 1992 as a Delaware senator that then-President George H.W. Bush should wait until after the election to make a nomination, and that Obama himself filibustered two Supreme Court justices when he was a senator.
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Republicans have used the filibuster to undermine entire institutions before: They opposed a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that could robustly protect American consumers, so they filibustered the president's nomination of Richard Cordray to serve as its director, regardless of his qualifications.
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"When Republicans filibustered your nomination and delayed your confirmation longer than any previous nominee to your position, I led the fight to get you confirmed because I believed you to be a principled public servant," Reid wrote in a letter to Comey.
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The political reality is that won't be happening any time soon, although there have been a number of relatively serious efforts, including in the late 1960s, when a bill to eliminate it passed the House, but was -- yep, filibustered -- in the Senate.
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He spoke on the Senate floor for 10 hours and 30 minutes in 2015 over the National Security Agency surveillance programs authorized under the Patriot Act and he filibustered for nearly 13 hours in 2013 to draw attention to the US drone program.
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During the Bush administration, Democrats filibustered his nomination to the 11th Circuit, and he was only confirmed as part of a grand bargain that saved the filibuster for judicial nominations — until the Democrats eliminated it for all but Supreme Court slots during the Obama administration.
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Paul has been no fan of Brennan — he filibustered for 13 hours in a failed attempt to block his 2013 nomination for CIA director — and the senator&aposs noninterventionist views put him at odds with much of the rest of the national security establishment.
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"One advantage Gorsuch had over Pryor was he had some chance of not being filibustered, but now they know they don't have to worry about that," said Ian Samuel, a Climenko Fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School who clerked for Scalia.
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In 23, David Cameron supported a backbencher's private bill to push UK time forward by an hour, but it was eventually filibustered and then lampooned by Jacob Rees-Mogg, who jokingly proposed Somerset deserved its own time zone a quarter of an hour behind London's.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) filibustered the vote in the Senate over deficit concerns.
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Mr. Trump is reported to be planning to rely on a law called the Secure Fence Act of 2006 as a source of statutory authority for the wall — apparently to avoid asking Congress to pass a new statute, which could be filibustered by Senate Democrats.
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Michael F. Bennet of Colorado delivered a familiar jeremiad against the Democrats who had filibustered Neil M. Gorsuch in early 2017, arguing that it would have been harder for Republicans to break the 60-vote rule had they waited until the far more controversial Kavanaugh confirmation. Sen.
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In other words, because almost every bill gets filibustered in the Senate, every single piece of legislation essentially needs 60 votes to pass — a rule that would inevitably serve as a death blow to bold progressive ideas like Medicare-for-all, $15 minimum wage, and so on.
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The House bill makes its changes to the individual tax code permanent; the Senate bill would allow many major provisions to expire after 2025 in order to comply with Senate rules that limit how much a bill that can't be filibustered can increase the federal deficit.
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The former Texas lawmaker, who became a household name back in 2013 when she filibustered a bill in the Austin Senate that would have placed draconian limitations on abortion access, may have stepped away from political office for the moment — but that doesn't mean she's given up the mic.
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While it's true that sixty votes are still required in the Senate to break a filibuster on legislation, nominations can no longer be filibustered in the modern Senate – not Supreme Court justices, circuit court judges, Cabinet nominees, assistant secretaries, deputy assistants to the secretaries, undersecretaries, or anyone else.
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It is true that the filibuster of a Supreme Court nomination is highly unusual—it has happened only once before, when LBJ's nomination of Abe Fortas to replace departing Chief Justice Earl Warren was filibustered (ultimately handing Richard Nixon two Supreme Court vacancies when Fortas was later forced to resign).
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Mr. Graham, who briefly sought the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, is one of just three senators remaining in office who served on the "Gang of 14," which brokered a compromise on judicial appointments in 2005 after Democrats filibustered nominations for district and appellate courts put forward by President George W. Bush.
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Richards highlighted how Pelosi whipped her caucus to vote against the Iraq War under George Bush, and how last year in 2017 she filibustered the House floor in an attempt to force an immigration vote by speaking for over eight hours about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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On November 18th Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, and the governor of Guangdong province, Ma Xingrui, signed an agreement to kick off the project—a moment which was delayed for three weeks after opposition politicians filibustered a non-binding vote to approve the step by members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council.
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"Think of the care these people lost access to — birth control, STD screenings, cancer screenings, diabetes screenings — and add that to the closing of over half of the state's abortion clinics," says former State Senator Wendy Davis, who voted against the family cuts in 2011 and filibustered the law that ultimately became HB2.
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Senators from each party are agonizing over the potentially toxic consequences if Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is filibustered by Democrats and Republicans respond with the "nuclear option," a move allowing the GOP to quickly change Senate rules so the judge tapped by Republican President Donald Trump could be approved on a party-line vote.
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With the Zika vote and another roll call on a filibustered defense spending bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is deploying one of his favorite parliamentary tactics: forcing repeated votes on failed measures that are likely to fall short again, triggering another round of headlines and blame for Senate Democrats blocking those measures.
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When Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) filibustered the Obama administration's policies on drones during the nomination of John BrennanJohn Owen BrennanWebb: Questions for Robert Mueller A brief timeline of Trump's clashes with intelligence director Dan Coats Trump critic Brennan praises his Iran decision: I 'applaud' him MORE to be head of the CIA, Sen.
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These two repeals slid through quickly and easily through thanks to the little-known 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA), which allows Congress to nullify any rules submitted to the Federal Register within the previous 60 legislative days using a joint resolution, which only takes a simple majority that cannot be filibustered, but can be vetoed by the president.
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Through their own mistakes over a 15-year history where they screw this up to the point where they filibustered Neil Gorsuch, who was supremely qualified and gave Republicans the, -- who are traditional brand and didn&apost want to change the Senate rules, no choice but to have to change the Senate rules to confirm him.
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But Mulvaney, a congressman before his recent appointment, is joined in his reckless posture by his old allies in the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, and it's easy to imagine a handful of hardliners in the Senate—where a stand-alone debt limit can be filibustered—insisting on similar concessions in exchange for their debt-limit votes as well.
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For instance, Democrats this week twice filibustered a basic energy and water appropriations bill — one that was chosen because it seemed so easy to pass — because of an amendment, offered by Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, that would bar the United States from purchasing water used in producing nuclear energy and nuclear weapons from Iran.
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Why it matters: Killing the filibuster is likely the only way Democrats could actually advance most of the progressive policies 2020 candidates are promising, even if they secured unified control of Washington — because almost every bill gets filibustered in the Senate, and Democrats won't reach a 60-seat supermajority necessary to break a Republican filibuster. Sen.
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Sarah Davis (R-Houston) the only Republican to vote against efforts to strip abortion rights from women in our state, handily won re-election after voting with the Democrats against the anti-abortion bill that I filibustered in 2013, with 70.95 percent of the vote in the 2014 Republican primary and 61.20 percent of the vote in the general.
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He has a long record of becoming the center of attention in the Senate as the GOP's contrarian: He shut down the government briefly once this year, threatened another shutdown, fought Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the PATRIOT Act in 2015 and famously filibustered former CIA Director John Brennan for almost 13 hours in 2013.
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Dixiecrats filibustered anti-lynching legislation, opposed the idea of expanding civil rights, and although it was a Democratic President and a majority Democratic Congress, spurred on by young marchers and protesters, that got the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act over the finish line, those historic laws also got passed because of the leadership of Republicans like Illinois's own Everett Dirksen.
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In 22019, just a year after being elected, Cruz filibustered over ObamaCare funding for nearly 22 hours, which led to an eventual government shutdown when Democratic leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE refused to compromise.
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During that time, two Cabinet-level nominees were rejected on the floor of the Senate after failing to win approval in committee, including John Tower as secretary of defense in 1989 and John Bolton in 2005, who was filibustered by Senate Democrats to be United Nations ambassador before being installed as a recess appointment by then-President George W. Bush.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) predicted that a tax bill would receive some votes from centrist Democrats in the House but also defended Republicans' plans to take advantage of a process known as "reconciliation" that can prevent legislation from being filibustered by Democrats.
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When Senate Republicans are blamed for obstruction, they are quick to point out that Democrats, when they were in the minority during most of George W. Bush's presidency, filibustered judicial nominees, too — less frequently than McConnell, but often enough that Republicans had considered the "nuclear option": getting rid of the filibuster for judicial matters, which would allow judges to be confirmed on a simple majority vote.
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CRA resolutions, which cannot be filibustered, are subject to up to 10 hours of debate in the Senate and can only be used within 60 legislative days of a rule's enactment, limiting the number that Republicans could push through given a heavy workload to confirm political appointees and start on their own legislative agenda, including overhauling the tax code and repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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"We obviously have not been able to get to where we can get legislation that would not be filibustered on the floor," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike CrapoMichael (Mike) Dean CrapoThe job no GOP senator wants: 'I'd rather have a root canal' Lawmakers battle over future of Ex-Im Bank Eleven GOP senators sign open letter backing Sessions's comeback bid MORE (R-Idaho) told The Hill last week.
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"Under the Congressional Budget Acts, one of the three types of reconciliation legislations allowed is a budget change, so if Republicans are able to agree on a resolution for budget 2018, they can put the debt ceiling increase in without being filibustered," said Richard Kogan, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former House Budget Committee and Office of Management and Budget staffer.
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WE HAVE THIS ABSOLUTE TRANSFORMATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF US. THE WHITE HOUSE, THE HOUSE, THE SENATE ALL LINED UP. WE HAVE THIS BUDGET RULE, WE CALL IT RECONCILIATION THAT GIVES US THE ABILITY TO PASS THIS WITHOUT BEING FILIBUSTERED SO WE HAVE GOT IT LINED UP AND THAT MEANS THERE IS REALLY NO EXCUSE FOR GETTING IT DONE AND WE KNOW IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL AND ESSENTIAL FOR GETTING FASTER ECONOMIC GROWTH.
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Though the state legislature was thrust into the spotlight earlier this month when Missouri Democrats filibustered a religious freedom bill proposed by Republican colleagues, the House took the opportunity to add a measure into its proposed state budget that would cut $380 million in funding for Planned Parenthood — money that is already prohibited from being used for abortions but can be used for other health services, like sexually transmitted disease testing, HPV vaccinations, and exams.
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