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Pres. Trump Calls on Senate to End Filibuster Rule
One America News ^ | March 23, 2018

Posted on 03/23/2018 7:10:20 PM PDT by McGruff

In order to prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, the president called for the Senate to end the filibuster rule.

There are many classic examples of the famous Senate filibuster, or the practice in which a lawmaker will speak against a bill he doesn’t like for hours, even days until the legislation is finally shelved.

Why does President Trump want to do away with a key piece of Senate filibuster rules?

The answer goes back to a Democrat who occupied the White House more than a century ago.

Back in 1917, then-President Woodrow Wilson found himself unable to move his agenda forward due to seemingly endless filibusters in Congress.

Tired of waiting, Wilson urged the Senate to come up with a way to pass bills without deliberation.

What they came up with, and what is now blocking major Trump administration reforms, is known as the cloture rule, which sets the threshold for a law to pass at 60 votes. This is far higher than a simple Senate majority of 51.

As President Trump explains it — “eight Dems totally control the U.S. Senate

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To: raiderboy; Gator113

FOAD

whoever told you “Go ahead and be yourself” gave you terrible advice.


41 posted on 03/23/2018 8:33:58 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: MountainWalker

>>I would like to sit down with McConnell and try to understand his calculus. <<

Here’s his calculus. As long as he sticks with the filibuster, he’s the most powerful person in DC. He can absolutely ignore the priorities of every other Republican Senator, the House GOP, and even the President himself, just by claiming it won’t pass because it won’t get 60 votes.

And if he likes something, he can trade with some Dems and get it.

Got it? It’s not that hard to see.

What I don’t understand is why so many conservatives don’t understand that simple fact and unite to put enough pressure on him to get him to yield. Even with the President calling for him to do it all we get is crickets.

And don’t anybody bother giving me the b.s. excuse that it will come back to bite us. Schumer will take that bite as soon as it’s to his advantage, regardless what McConnell does.


42 posted on 03/23/2018 8:34:12 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: Vendome

GFY


43 posted on 03/23/2018 8:44:10 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: McGruff
Of course, the U.S. Senate could simply get rid of the two-track rule, so that Chuck Schoooooooooomer would have to recite Beatles songs for hours on the Senate floor to stop GOP legislation from passing.

#MakeFilibustersRareAgain

44 posted on 03/23/2018 8:47:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: raiderboy

Pound sand asshat.

You have been spouting your idiocy long enough.


45 posted on 03/23/2018 8:51:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

GFY


46 posted on 03/23/2018 8:54:13 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: raiderboy

Doubling down on your stupidity or just plain a lack of creative intellect, so you repeat your weakass put down?

If you really believed anything substantively, you would have defended your case with something meaningful.

Now it’s impossible to take you seriously.


47 posted on 03/23/2018 8:58:36 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: raiderboy

Say that in my presence and you will eat food through a straw you lying cuck traitor. Get back to DUmmies bitch


48 posted on 03/23/2018 9:01:47 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Az Joe

eSMF


49 posted on 03/23/2018 9:08:13 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Tzimisce
Did you know that the Nazis have a Civil Rights plan?

Yes.

Did you know that Nazis are liars?

50 posted on 03/23/2018 9:09:32 PM PDT by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: McGruff

Mitch McConnell to POTUS:

“Sure Mr President. Right after we get around to passing a constitutional Line Item Veto law...
...(Heh heh heh...Don’t hold your breath, Sir)”


51 posted on 03/23/2018 9:13:40 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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To: McGruff
I don't know why Trump keeps complaining about this stupid filibuster rule. Forget about 60 votes. The Republican Party can't even get 50 votes to deliver on anything of substance related to Trump's agenda.
52 posted on 03/23/2018 9:30:49 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: McGruff

The Congress is laughing at Trump. You think they are going to listen to a word he has to say?


53 posted on 03/23/2018 10:15:30 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Vendome

Troll me thinks.


54 posted on 03/23/2018 10:20:18 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: NutsOnYew

Yeah.

So is our Senate - just look at what they just passed.

But you still believe them. :)


55 posted on 03/23/2018 10:48:25 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: raiderboy

If anyone ever deserved a ZOT, you do.


56 posted on 03/24/2018 2:07:33 AM PDT by McGruff (It's time to investigate the investigators)
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To: Vendome

lol


57 posted on 03/24/2018 2:28:40 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: pstwwl
Trump has no one to blame but himself for this travesty. He could have used his veto power as leverage with Congress to help craft the bill more to his liking. Instead he let Congress have free reign to write whatever bill they wanted, and this is the result.

They had enough votes to override a veto - the Dems and RINOs were trying to set him up and hoping he would veto it so they could work together to try to finish him off - they were very slick...if he vetoed it, they could howl about how he abandoned the military and lots of other interests and if he signed it, a lot of his base would be so incensed they wouldn't think long enough to realize who the real problems are....looks like the Dems and RINOs are winning because lots of Trump folks aren't able to conceive that conceding a battle may help win the war - Trump threw the gauntlet down at the Presser yesterday.

58 posted on 03/24/2018 3:53:18 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: McGruff

I suspect McTurtle will nuke the filibuster rule later in the year, just in time for the incoming Communist Party majority, so the Rupukes do not even have to participate after the election. They can just sit with their snouts in the K Street trough with no distractions.


59 posted on 03/24/2018 6:13:56 AM PDT by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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To: truth_seeker
Do they need 51 votes to change Senate rules?

Yes. They don't have them.

60 posted on 03/24/2018 6:20:51 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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