Posted on 11/07/2025 10:56:46 AM PST by DallasBiff
KANSAS (KSNT) – Kansas’ senators have given their position on the filibuster, a Senate rule that Trump has been pushing to scrap.
The filibuster is a longstanding Senate Rule that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation. At a breakfast with Senate Republicans on Wednesday morning and again in a video posted Wednesday evening, Trump renewed his calls to end the government shutdown by getting rid of the filibuster and lowering the threshold to 51 votes for legislation.
When Sen. Schumer proposed eliminating the filibuster, I opposed that idea, and my views on the importance of the filibuster have not changed. The filibuster provides senators – even when in the minority – the ability to stop bad policies and forces us to find common ground to better serve our constituents.
Kansas Senator Jerry Moran
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The moment they can, the left WILL get rid of it.
I use history as a guide, and expect the Democrats to flip the House and Senate next year.
I propose ending the filibuster when the senate has not passed a budget in 30 days or 15 failed votes whichever comes first.
GOP Senators under the illusion that decorum and respect still exist. Nice guys finish last. Nuke it.
Agree. So why wait until that dark day? There will never be a way back from the abyss if the Dems win the House in 2026 and start prosecuting ICE, the GOP leaders and Trump.
And if they get in power and cheat again with the FBI against us planting evidence and listening in on our phone calls then they will have ended the filibuster.
If the GOP can’t end the filibuster, how does anyone think there will be even one bill passed and accepted with the Dems blocking everything in Congress as they did with the spending bill?
The CR only solves the problem until January. That’s not far in the future. At which time the Dems will again block the spending and cause another shutdown to be blamed on Trump and the GOP.
Get that filibuster out.
The Republicans will blink , fund 1/2 the illegals and claim victory. Useless....
Mend it, don’t end it. Go back to a physical filibuster and reduce the vote threshold to 55 votes.
What Republicans do when they chase a car and catch it...don’t know what to do. You have all 3 branches of government and you are letting a decrepit old Jew like Shumer and the Bartender idiot AOC controlling the narrative here. this should be easy. So fuc*ing erudite these Senators are. Useless....
There must be something in the water
Kansas senators split from Trump on scrapping the filibuster
Regarding the filibuster, post-17th Amendment ratification, constitutionally low-information voters are being played again imo.
If you want evidence that the "feuding" political parties are the uniparty, then the deceptive filibuster is it imo.
Given that one of the very few MAJOR powers that the states expressly constitutionally gave to the federal government to dictate domestic policy is to deliver the mail, most federal domestic policy now based on stolen state powers, why does the Senate need the constitutionally undefined filibuster to resolve peacetime policy problems with the mail service, the federal government's limited powers also evidenced by the Constitution's drafters requiring Congress to meet only once a year?
Article I, Section 4, Clause 2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year [emphasis added], and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States. (non-FR)
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.
As opposed to the effective fractional votes that effectively water down majority votes to favor the minority, which is actually the opposite of elite Democrats preaching majority control democracy imo, the Constitution's drafters decided on simple majority rule for the Senate by not only guaranteeing each senator one vote, but also giving the vice president the power to break a tie vote.
Article I, Section. 3, Clause 1 (1.3.1): The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote [emphasis added].
Article I, Section 3, Clause 4: The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Take away their paycheck and see what they say.
“Agree. So why wait until that dark day? There will never be a way back from the abyss if the Dems win the House in 2026 and start prosecuting ICE, the GOP leaders and Trump.”
That would just be super-annoying. Not the abyss.
The abyss comes when the D’s control the Senate, House, and Presidency. Like first two years of Obama and Biden.
When that happens, there will never be another free election nor will there ever be a supreme court that is anything other than a left-wing pressure group unless there is an actual civil war.
Kansas Senators are always among the most embarrassing control opposition.
The filibuster is a rule of the Senate regarding debate.
It is authorized under Article I, Section 5:
“Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.”
The Senate and the Senate alone determines its rules.
Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
Yes, each House may determine the rules of its proceedings. But not when the rules disrespect constitutional rules.
Thomas Jefferson, himself the President of the Senate at one time, put it the following way about constitutional rules.
"The general rule [is] that an instrument is to be so construed as to reconcile and give meaning and effect to all its parts.
The filibuster effectively forces fractional votes for example, majority senators having less than one vote, despite Article I, Section 3, Clause 1 guaranteeing each senator one whole vote.
Article I, Section. 3, Clause 1(): The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote [emphasis added].
Ignoring 1.3.1 is not an oversight. It's a scam imo, evidence that Rats and RINOs are one in the same uniparty.
I should have phrased it better. Once the House would be in Dem’s dirty hands they wouldn’t allow another bill to get through the Senate, or anything else, and would slow down and stop any progress by Trump that the judges didn’t get to.
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