Posted on 07/06/2021 12:39:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Under the reconciliation process, certain budgetary items can pass the Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes. But all other issues require 60 votes to cut off Senate debate.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) says that should change. He spoke to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday:
We need to get rid of the filibuster for constitutional issues, just as we have done for budget issues. If you want to argue about how high a wall ought to be, whether or not you ought to build a wall, those are issues that are political, and let’s have the filibuster, if it’s — so long as there’s extended debate.But we ought not be filibustering things like people’s voting rights, because what we have done with the modern-day filibuster, we will allow a senator to sit downtown in a spa somewhere, pick up the telephone and call in the filibuster, and effectively stop voting rights and other constitutional rights while sitting in a spa somewhere, won’t even come to the floor to argue his or her position. …
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Just another suck up Democrat/communists saying what his rich but stupid donors want to hear.
Then do like I wanted the Republicans to do when the Democrats held a filibuster: make them hold the floor and talk 24 hours a day. No more "check here for a filibuster" postal reply cards.
Yalser masser Jim Iz gets riii to it
I think we all know, that Dems. such as Clyburn, want the filibuster in place, for legislation favored by Conservatives/Republicans, but want the filibuster abolished for legislation the liberals want to push through with 50 plus Kamala’s tie breaker vote in the Senate. I think we all know this is true.
Sometimes the existing legislative rules favor the position of your party, Jim, and sometimes they don’t. You can’t have it both ways.
Personally, I’d like to see a three-fifths majority required for the Senate to pass anything at all. Laws, spending bills, non-binding resolutions, anything. And I’d like that requirement to be permanent, via constitutional amendment.
Fat chance, I know.
I mean how shortsighted are these people? The Dems were filibustering everything, like crazy, just 7 months ago.
I am not sure where I stand on the issue, but to go from supporting it to hating it just because it went from helping you to hurting you is pitiful.
I don’t think total gridlock is great and I sometimes wouldn’t mind if elections were more consequential, because the fact that so little changes no matter who is in office leads to a lot of disaffection with politics. That inconsequentiality is an outgrowth of the filibuster and the public doesn’t really understand it. “Hey we’re in power we should get to do whatever we want,” is wrong, and the reason why is the filibuster. You’re not really in power unless you have 60 senators, and that is very rare.
Rhetorical slight-of-hand. It requires a 2/3rd majority of both houses of congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment. But Jim Clyburn’s election power grab isn’t that. So why should he worry about 67 senate votes when he can’t get 60?
Over the years I did some research on how much time congress wastes. In each session there are around 12,000 legislative efforts; some more, some less. About 200 of those become law - and most of those are to designate special days, name post offices and federal buildings, etc..
Congress should only be in session for a couple of months a year.
Ending the filibuster marks the eventual end of the Electoral College. It will kill our republic.
So they can have mob rule.
He knows they can pass almost ANYTHING, with 2 or 3 turncoat Rino’s, but 60 votes is not a done deal. If they got rid of the filibuster, they’d completely ruin the USA, and make every resident be able to vote by fraudulent means. So far, they’ve not quite ruined it all. Of course, barring fraudulent voting, republicans will beat the pants off democrats in 2022. THEN let’s see what they have to say about filibusters
“Rep. Clyburn: ‘We Need to Get Rid of the Filibuster for Constitutional Issues’”
Once the Democrats aka Demoncrats get rid of the filibuster, the Senate passes SR1 and Biden gets the Supreme Court packed, it’s all over America.
No. We need to get rid of Clyburn, the racist who resurrected dead Joe Biden with a fake primary win in South Carolina, thus paving the way for this abomination.
The language they use that’s worked for them for so many years.
Let them get rid of it. And when the majority switches, the Repubs (and hopefully Conservatives can hammer the Democrats. They will ‘rue the day’.
Yes, those things would happen.
The District of Columbia would become a state, which will add 2 Democrat senators to the Senate.
Puerto Rico would become a state, and odds are both new senators from there would be Democrats.
The Supreme Court would be expanded.
The federal takeover of elections bill will be passed.
And there would be other mischief too, such as expanding the definition of infrastructure, and expanding the size of Biden’s infrastructure bill, because infrastructure will have been redefined to include so many extraneous subjects. Add a few trillion more to the bill. What’s a few trillion among friends?
Yeah, Joe will be climbing up the Statue of Liberty, smelling her hair and kissing her goodbye.
Three fifths of 100 is 60.
Ah, Clyboil, constitutional issues are what they are, the constitution and the courts. If you cannot get a constitutional amendment passed, you surely are not being stopped by the filibuster.
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