Posted on 03/19/2021 10:04:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Pressure is building on Democrats to ditch the filibuster to pass a long list of party agenda items that Republicans oppose.
Democrats hope to pass a trio of amnesty bills, major election reform legislation, and a massive infrastructure bill paid for with tax increases.
While Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House, their agenda could be thwarted by the GOP.
Few Republicans are likely to get behind the legislation Democrats are proposing, which means Senate passage remains unlikely unless Democrats either change the bills to accommodate the GOP or find a way to eliminate the 60-vote threshold required to bring legislation to the Senate floor.
Senate Democrats control 50 votes and the majority with the tiebreaking power of Vice President Kamala Harris. They need at least 10 Republicans to open debate on a bill.
A growing number of Democrats now support an end to the filibuster and join liberal groups in pressuring centrist Democratic holdouts to help them end it.
Sen. Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, is among lawmakers who signaled that she supports ending the filibuster.
"There's so much important work we have to get done," Smith said. "How can I go out and tell people, 'Oh, we really need to get this done, but we can't because the Senate rules won't let us'?"
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, also a Minnesota Democrat, signed a bipartisan letter in 2017 opposing the filibuster's end.
At the time, Klobuchar and 60 other senators argued that the filibuster is needed "to preserve the ability of members to engage in extended debate when bills are on the Senate floor" and ensure "that this great American institution continues to serve as the world's greatest deliberative body."
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“Pressure builds”
How terrible. It
Must be excruciating for them to contemplate
Ramming their agenda down our throats
Their latest tactic is to portray anyone who supports the filibuster as a racist. Can Manchin withstand that?
Must
Have
One
Party
Rule!
BIDEN DOESN’T have an agenda. A cabal of Marxist lefties are running this country. This sham has to stop.
“Pressure builds”
How terrible. It
Must be excruciating for them to contemplate
Ramming their agenda down our throats
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After ramming the 2020 selection down our throats
They must expect never to lose control of Congress in the future. Right now they have a razor-thin majority in the House and a tie in the Senate (the Republicans should have a 53-47 edge but for stolen seats) and a fraudulent President in the White House...so they plan to ram through legislation which has the support of a minority of the citizenry.
It's coming folks. This nation is not united and likely never will be again. Americans and communists can't live under the same roof.
This is the only way to solidify the coup! They have to pass the election laws to codify in to law the methods of stealing votes so they can never be challenged in courts again!
Scoundrels!
“Biden agenda”.
The Biden agenda is getting his Depends changed and scoring his favorite pudding while sniffing an American Girl doll.
It wasn’t our throats... it was a little further south than that
Of course. With the voting machines rigged, a court system that ignores and a justice system that will not investigate, they have every possible avenue of escape cut off.
They will print 10 billion ballots, if necessary, to win every election in every state county and city.
Who will stop them?
Certainly not the Republicans.
The Voters can’t.
We are becoming communist, and there isn’t a damn thing anybody can do about it..................
Floating a balloon to begin the process that has already been agreed to by all Democrats and many Republicans.
Agenda is temporary. Filibuster is FOREVER. Guess which?
It’s only a matter of time.
I don’t think they understand that Donald Trump is still here. If they do this and Trump accomplishes what I think he’s aiming for they are opening themselves to a world of hurt! Trump wont leave any RINO’s in seats to side with the democrats.
So WTF is the use of the Senate? Let’s just have mob rule and rubber stamps.
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