Posted on 11/08/2024 7:54:10 AM PST by MagillaX
With Republicans projected to win the Senate majority in the 2024 election, "the filibuster will stand," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted on Wednesday.
Even when one party controls a slim majority of Senate seats, the other party can still block legislation from advancing due to the significant threshold required for overcoming the filibuster.
"In 1975 the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds of senators voting to three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn, or 60 of the 100-member Senate," senate.gov notes.
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The filibuster is not a suicide pact.
Nope
You don’t hand your enemies a tool to beat your legislative agenda to death with mindless rabid obstructionism
Agreed. There is a greater issue here than who has power at this instant.
I’ll see your 55 and make it 45.
Be warned. If Republicans keep the fillibuster, MAGA will fail, and the Democrats will vote-cheat their way back into socialism.
Yeah, I’m sure the filibuster will be just fine to have if the Dems use it
Shut up McConnell!
The Dems badly wanted to axe the filibuster, so in the name of bringing the country together we should give them what they want.
You want to filibuster? Fine. Get a book and a catheter and stand for as long as you can and speak in opposition or read poems.
But the moment you collapse in exhaustion, we vote on the topic.
No more mere threats of filibuster and have that derail legislation. When did that start anyway? We have to get sanity back in Washington.
It should remain in place except when used for things “Chuck you” Schumer is against. :->
Name to be changed to the “Everybody but Schumer” Rule.
Sounds like his chicommie wife gave him his orders
For “advise and consent” appointments of executive branch people, Congress should have the prospective appointee available for questions for two weeks, and then vote.
No filibuster to keep Democrat holdovers.
The Senators all want to keep the filibuster, since it makes each senator important, and guarantees they will all be courted by lobbyists.
Somebody should let McConnell know he is irrelevant.
Didn’t Mitch resign ?
I really think they should put this to a vote, just to get the Democrats on record now that Trump has been elected. Do another one on packing the Supreme Court. They still want that, right?
Another one on letting the Trump administration decide what is “disinformation”, so social media can ban it, and purveyors of “disinformation” can be punished. Still all-in with that one, Leftists? Vote for it!
When is this fossil going away ?
Correct.
In just regular voting, we’ve got 53, maybe 54 with Kari Lake.
Murcowski and Collins from Maine are democrats. John Cornyn is a squish at best and there’s one more, probably Thune, but I can’t remember his name.
If we get 54, all the worst RINOs could defect and Vance could tie break.
On that, I wonder if Vance could act as majority leader. Does it have to be a meme of the Senate? Does the VP count?
return it to its original intent... speak on the floor and show everyone what an idiot you are...
for as long as you can speak
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