Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) thinks “the Senate should reinstate the 60-vote threshold for all judicial and executive branch nominees,” The Hill reported (here) on Monday, September 26, 2022. She made that remark during a Q&A following a speech at the University of Louisville’s M[...]
Posts Tagged ‘filibuster’
September 26th, 2022 - 6:06 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans
Why Sinema is wrong about the filibuster
June 30th, 2022 - 3:47 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Biden’s hypocritical new stance on filibuster
Biden, who has opposed changing the Senate filibuster rule, is now calling for a “carveout” to pass federal abortion rights (see story here). But he still hasn’t endorsed carveouts for anything else, beyond the existing exceptions for spending bills and judicial nominees. Look, abo[...]
Republicans Declare War!
Republicans Anger Fuels The Reprican Cause JONATHAN WEISMAN of the NY Times writes that the senate’s overturn of the Filibuster rule is the beginning of “warfare beyond even what Americans have seen in the past five years. “ How Often Filibusters Have Been Used ” fo[...]
November 21st, 2013 - 9:32 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Senate May End Filibuster Rule.
Its About Time We Became a Democracy Few Americans understand that our system of balances was NOT intended to be a two party system. The small coterie of founding fathers, like th Bolsheviks or the Jacobins, were revolutionaries .. and elite who did not envision a system built around organized p[...]
Halstead: REFORM THE FILIBUSTER!
Friends, Excuse, I hope, this chain letter advocating modifying the Senate rules permitting unchecked filibusters and single-senator holds on Presidential appointments. Sign it, if you will, at http://www.reformthefilibuster.com/warren For more on the subject … Elizabeth Warren at Huff Pos[...]