who instead are mulling more limited measures such as a "carveout" that would exempt voting rights legislation from needing 60 votes, or moving to what's known as the talking filibuster, where opponents may delay the vote on a bill for as long as they can hold the floor but the legislati...
President Biden and Vice President Harris will speak in Atlanta today to drum up support for dropping the Senate filibuster rule in order to pass legislation to expand voting access. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe
"Like every other major civil rights bill that came along, if we missed the first time, we could come back and try it a second time. We missed this time. We missed this time," he said. "... I don't know that we can get it done, but I know one thing: As long as I have ...
agenda. we’ve been here before, most recently with the build back better bill , and can see how this could play out: biden and the democrats make overture after overture to manchin and the holdouts, only for him to say no anyway. that gloomy prospect would seem even more likely ...
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would bring a massive voting rights and government reform bill to the Senate floor for a vote, even though it is almost certain to fail due to Republican opposition. GOP senators claim that S. 1, known as the For the People Act, is a power ...
The bill, the Juneteenth Independence Day Act, headed to Mr. Biden's desk after it overwhelmingly passed the House on Wednesday and the Senate on Tuesday. Fourteen Republicans opposed the legislation in the House, while it passed by unanimous voice vote in the Senate. ...
which was affecting african american communities more harshly than the powdered cocaine favored by white drug users. biden was also a proponent of the 1994 crime bill, which critics say led to mass incarceration disproportionately affecting people of color. at a martin luther king day event in jan...
The House Administration committee said via a social media post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House office building around the same time the House was set to start voting on a CR bill. ...
But what is a filibuster, and why do Democrats want to change it?The short version of the story is that Democrats want to reinterpret Senate rules so they can use just 50 votes to pass things like the voting rights bill or Biden’s massive infrastructure package. ...