#Filibuster

As a Democrat from Joe Biden’s longtime home state of Delaware, Sen. Christopher A. Coons is widely perceived to have a direct line to the president, so his views on what’s next after the failure of voting reform deserve careful attention. In an interview with NPR on Wednesday, Coons struck...

Democrats may have reached the periphery of their power in Washington already. That’s despite controlling the House, Senate and White House. This phenomenon was best on display Tuesday evening when Democrats didn’t summon a single Republican to vote to trigger debate on a voting rights bill. This was not a...

In May, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to create a 9/11-style panel to investigate the deadly Jan 6 Capitol riot. House Democrats, supported by 35 Republicans, passed a bill to investigate the insurrection. But in the Senate, the bill fell short of the 60 votes needed to bypass a filibuster.

The White House on Monday opened the door to revisiting the filibuster — a hotly contested issue across political lines — setting the stage for a bitter congressional fight to do away with the controversial debate tactic. Responding to a question about Tuesday's Senate debate on voting rights legislation, White...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) this week cast a spotlight on perhaps the biggest argument against Democrats eliminating the filibuster: that it would open the door to “ricochet” legislating. Basically, Democrats would benefit in the near term, but what happens if and when Republicans regain power?. Not only could Republicans just...

Get rid of the filibuster, insists Sen. Alex Padilla. His colleague, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, isn’t so sure. “Alex Padilla would have given up the filibuster to move forward on voting rights, climate change, immigration reform and more,” he told The Sacramento Bee this week. Feinstein, a senator since 1992, was...

WASHINGTON – The Senate minority today used the filibuster rule to block legislation we need to protect voting rights, which are under attack in nearly every state. Mitchell Bernard, president of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) made the following statement:. “The Senate filibuster rule is broken. It’s time to fix...

To say that there is hypocrisy in Washington politics is like saying the sun will come up tomorrow. It is a given. Politicians often twist themselves into pretzel-like logic to justify their positions. And they are pretty good at it—probably because of all the practice—which is why many of the incumbents continue to get re-elected.

Senate Democrats are in a pickle. With only 25 legislative days remaining before the August recess, a procedure that many Senate Democrats defended during the Trump administration threatens to derail much of their agenda: the legislative filibuster. According to a Fix review, over the past year no fewer than 45...

Last week, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to set up a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Many press reports described this as the “first” filibuster of the current session of Congress. This is incorrect. In fact, the entire Democratic agenda in Congress has been paralyzed by filibusters for months. And unless the Senate Republicans change their strategy or the Democrats change the rules of the Senate, the Democrats will fail to achieve the ambitious policies that they promised in the 2020 elections, and that a majority of Americans voted for.