After months of debate, Senate Democrats this summer broke a Republican filibuster against a bill to extend unemployment benefits. But the Republicans insisted on applying a technicality in the Senate ...
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Thune: Talking filibuster would force us to vote on many things we'd prefer not to vote on
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on "Special Report" said there is deep resistance within the GOP to altering ...
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The filibuster and its discontents in both parties
Raise your hand if you thought the filibuster would be a top issue in the most important Republican Senate primary of this year’s midterm elections. Congratulations if that was your guess. The ...
Ben Sasse’s op-ed “America Needs the Filibuster” (July 20) makes a persuasive case for why the filibuster is an important part of our country’s governance. I agree that a permanent filibuster makes ...
I have some more observations on the never-ending “talking filibuster” caper. 1. The president has made it clear that he wants the SAVE America Act to pass. The problem is that the version he’s ...
The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...
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