Publius - what do you think?
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Sen. McConnell can limit Democrat intransigence by invoking “Two-Speech” rule in Senate. Forces Dems to exhaust themselves and allows simple majority vote on CR/Wall Funding Bill.
Senate GOP Has Votes to Pass Wall Funding House Bill
https://www.halseynews.com/2018/12/22/senate-gop-has-votes-to-pass-wall-funding-house-bill/
oops..found my own answer from the comments:
“The new Congressional term will begin on January 3rd, at which point all the preceeding bills are dead and have to be reintroduced from scratch. The House would then be in control of the Democrats, who would not vote for funding for the wall. So for this “two-speech rule” scheme to work, the Senate would have to complete debate and vote on the wall-funding prior to January 3rd. That’s only 6 and a fraction days, or at most about 160 hours even if the Senate worked through New Years Day and remained in sesson around the clock. Supposing that the Democrats united to defeat this tactic, it would require about 40 Democrats to each speak for 4 hours (or just 2 hours per speech) to fill up that time. That’s certainly doable, especially since some Senators could fill up 5 or 6 hours per speech to releave the pressure on others. The bottom line is that it is too late for this tactic to succeed before the new Congress is sworn in”
He can do that. Another way to play is to require a genuine filibuster the way it used to be done, i.e., keep talking all the time. It’s another way to wear down the enemy.
Mark