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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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Why are Republicans worried about a shutdown? I say shut down the government for a lengthy period of time.
He's running for Senate?
Why is that hole still here?
I want him to feel the divine electric power of “The Lord”.
(put your hand on the radio)
Nah. You and I agree that both the House and the Senate are full of liars, albeit that most of them are very accomplished at it.
Hope you have a great day!
God is messing with us and thinks we’re angels....?
God is messing with us and thinks we’re angels....?
“Do they need 51 votes to change Senate rules?
Yes.”
“They don’t have them.”
That is what I thought. Collins, McCain and McConnell himself, plus others I suspect.
Strike down the 17th amendment
Add Graham, Corker, Flake, Rubio, and probably half a dozen others.
When it opened, the Senate Rules had a "call for the vote." That was eliminated in 1808, setting the possibility for delay on taking the vote, simply by dint of one member refusing to consent to vote.
Treaty of Versailles was a breaking point, and cloture was LOOSENING, not tightening, the "unlimited debate, no calling the vote" rule arrangement that had been in place since 1808.
Since then, the cloture threshold has been gradually reduced or lowered to where it is now.
The Senate is a dysfunctional deliberative body, operating on a minority veto basis. Cloture is fine, if it is not abused. But it has been converted into a minority veto system, or suprmajority required to pass system.
The Senate is populated with selfish degernerates.
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