#EndCloture
If you want to put an end to the abuse of the Senate Rule which requires a 60 vote majority to pass, you want to End Cloture. Not the harmless filibuster which requires no votes to use or end — because it is NOT a U.S. Senate rule.
I’ve said this a million times over the past decade and I don’t understand why I have to keep saying it.
Everyone in this country continues to demand an end to “The Filibuster”, sure that ending it will end the obstruction of the U.S. Senate. Which is exactly what president Woodrow Wilson demanded of the Senate back in 1917… and which resulted in the creation of Senate Rule #22, the Cloture Vote.
The U.S. Senate URL https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Cloture_vrd.htm is the section of the Senate’s official website to see that it is Cloture which is the problem, and that the much maligned Filibuster is blameless.
The cloture rule–Rule 22–is the only formal procedure that Senate rules provide for breaking a filibuster. A filibuster is an attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter. Under cloture, the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours of debate.
Why is everyone so determined to continue to call for something WHICH CANNOT HAPPEN? There can be no ending of Filibuster, because there is no Senate rule about the Filibuster, only one about Cloture. It’s true, read through that linked section of the Senate website and inform yourself.
I realize that I am on a one woman campaign to inform here, but by god, I’m not going stop saying it until everyone else stops calling to END THE FILIBUSTER and starts calling to #EndCloture.
Which will end those 60 vote requirements and return the U.S. Senate to a simple majority of 50+1 to pass any motion, as it should be.