A filibuster is a common tactic used in the Senate, where debate time is unlimited, to prevent the legislation on the floor from passing. It is part of the Parliamentary Procedure in that chamber of Congress. It requires 60 senators to break a filibuster in what is known as cloture. Filibusters are impossible in the House because the House has adopted rules to permit a majority of the members to end debate on a matter in response to the pressures created by the size of the body. The House of Representatives was able to do this, despite opposition from minority parties, because it is not a continuous body, it must reorganize itself and adopt rules from scratch by majority vote after each election. In contrast, the Senate is a continuous body which only amends its rules from session to session, which requires a two-thirds majority.
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Most GOP senators have fallen in line with Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign to return to the White House, starting from the top with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They’re with him despite ...
by Joan McCarter
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Without question, defeating Donald Trump this year is job one—because if we don’t do that, job two will likely involve tossing deep-fried Soylent Green�to�the free-range Trump clones waiting for ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 07:02 AM PDT
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There’s a lot of handwringing in the traditional media about the end of the Senate moderate, now that quasi-Democrats Kyrsten Sinema ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 10:47 AM PST
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Is the United States of America losing the world’s respect? Are we losing respect not just among our rivals and enemies, but among our friends and non-aligned nations? And is there good reason for this dismal trend? The answers to all three questions,...
by dratler
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 07:11 AM PST
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When I was a student in the late sixties, Tijuana, Mexico, was the place for male college kids to go. They went there to get drunk, to patronize the many whorehouses operating openly, to get rowdy, and to blow off steam. Often they got jailed and had...
by dratler
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 09:25 PM PST
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“At cusp, choice is. With choice, spirit grows.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land MLK would know. We Americans are at cusp. This year we have a grave choice. Either we continue our flawed democracy and our long quest for a “more perfect...
by dratler
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 07:48 PM PST
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This effort started as a comment on another diary, but it seemed to have hit a nerve. So, I am starting a new series of posts with this title. Because the world is a mess, and someone has to step up and straighten it all out. I had no ambition to be...
by ladyrima
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 02:11 PM PST
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We often hear that the United States is a democracy, and even used to hear it was the world’s best. That would have come as a surprise to the delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 who blamed the problems under the Articles of Confederation on an excess of...
by Phillysophy
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 05:39 AM PST
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This story, originally titled “That "laddered CR"? A surprise switcheroo--Mike Johnson's GOP got played, lost EVERYTHING they wanted,” has been retracted due to misinformation arising from confusion regarding military construction and other Department...
by Tweedledee5
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 07:37 PM PST
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Right now, as I write this, the United States government is not a democracy. In different ways, both chambers of Congress operate under principles of minority rule, or at least minority vetoes. No other democracy on Earth operates similarly. Not our...
by dratler
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 05:10 PM PDT
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by poopdogcomedy
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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There is too much "bothsiderism" pushed by today's major media outlets. Sadly, occasionally it even happens here. The vast majority of Senate Democrats oppose the filibuster now. Nevertheless, we don't have 50+ votes to end the filibuster. There are a...
by Dem
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 03:54 PM PDT
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One Senator could easily end the Tuberville nonsense, demanding concessions to his own personal political agenda, to approve more than 300 military appointments. Admiral James Stavridis raised the issue this morning. Stavridis said, "What would...
by NM Ray
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 06:15 AM PDT
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Jamelle Bouie, a wonderful philosopher on the nature of democracy, among other things, has a terrific op-ed in the Times today: www.nytimes.com/... The Most Frightening Part of the Trump Indictment Co-Conspirator 4 spoke with Philbin, who told him that...
by Mrmuni12
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on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 09:34 AM PDT
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President Biden took over a crisis that the previous administration had left in a mess. He took over for a president who had the distinction of being the first president since HERBERT HOOVER to leave with fewer people employed at the end of his term...
by Dem
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Since Wednesday, a majority of Republicans in the Oregon Senate have been ditching work—to prevent a quorum and bring all legislative action to a halt. The walkout is intended to block votes on progressive legislation related to abortion, gun control,...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Fri May 05, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Hell yeah: Republican 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley was called out as a “poser” after posting a picture of herself wielding a gun online. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) — a Marine veteran who saw combat in Iraq — listed the issues he had with...
by poopdogcomedy
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Ari Meiber for the win! MSNBC aired more damning whistleblower audio of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Tuesday, this time dissecting a tape that appears to feature him plotting to overthrow the 2020 election—well before the events of Jan. 6. The revelations come...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 05:48 PM PDT
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Fucking GOP MAGA Piece of Shit: U.S. Senate candidate and Republican sheriff Mark Lamb went on the program of white nationalist Stew Peters, where he defended the recent shooting of Ralph Yarl. Lamb told Peters that the shooting was “tragic” and...
by poopdogcomedy
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Ok, I get that Democrats in Red States have to take difficult votes and do what they have to do to get re-elected but this is ridiculous: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday threatened to endorse a repeal of a major law he negotiated and helped pass...
by poopdogcomedy
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