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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Already Mulling Filibuster Rule Change
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/18/democrats-already-mulling-filibuster-rule-change/Democrats Already Mulling Filibuster Rule Change
July 18, 2020 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Democrats, increasingly hopeful they can retake the White House and Senate in November, are discussing changing Senate rules to pass legislation with a simple majority of votes, ABC News reports.
Known as the nuclear option, the move to eliminate the 60-vote threshold currently needed to end debate in a full Senate would allow a Joe Biden administration and a Democrat-led Congress to act swiftly on key party priorities, including climate change, voting rights and gun control, with just 51 votes.
Its a possibility that the former vice president, who spent 36 years in the Senate, recently signaled more interest in considering and one that could have significant implications for governing.
Known as the nuclear option, the move to eliminate the 60-vote threshold currently needed to end debate in a full Senate would allow a Joe Biden administration and a Democrat-led Congress to act swiftly on key party priorities, including climate change, voting rights and gun control, with just 51 votes.
Its a possibility that the former vice president, who spent 36 years in the Senate, recently signaled more interest in considering and one that could have significant implications for governing.
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Democrats Already Mulling Filibuster Rule Change (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2020
OP
Yup. And then we use that power to eliminate voter suppression and gerrymandering...
FreepFryer
Jul 2020
#3
Salviati
(6,008 posts)1. Good.
We need to play hardball. Eliminate the filibuster, expand the supreme court, heck expand the entire judiciary.
Midnight Writer
(21,770 posts)2. Simply return the Senate filibuster to it's pre 1970s state.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)3. Yup. And then we use that power to eliminate voter suppression and gerrymandering...
...the voters enfranchised thereby will ensure the GOP never runs anything more important than a shit wagon again.
Thekaspervote
(32,779 posts)4. This!!
JDC
(10,129 posts)5. Time to legislate and get things fixed. No loop hole for Rs to hold us up any longer
They want bipartisanship, no problem. Offer some that is not a my way or the highway plan. Otherwise, they can sit down, STFU and watch the country get fixed yet again by Ds