regarding all presidential nominations except those to the Supreme Court, and in 2017 the rule was similarly reinterpreted for Supreme Court nominations.) If the legislation under debate would change the Senate’s standing rules, cloture may be invoked only on a vote of two-thirds of those ...
WASHINGTON --Sen. Elizabeth Warren has earned a rare rebuke by the Senate for quoting Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber’s arcane rules by reading a three-decade-old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow that dated toSen. Jeff...
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The Senate, with terms of six years for its members—as opposed to two years for members of the House of Representatives—and a tradition of unlimited debate, has long prided itself as the more deliberate of the two branches of Congress. Under its rules a senator may speak on an issue ...
This doctor therefore proposed, "that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day's debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of ...
Senate rules are truly insane. Photographer Margaret Bourke-White with her kitten in 1944 John Nichols at The Nation:Schumer’s Inflation Reduction Act Includes a Smart Tax on Corporations. The Inflation Reduction Act that is poised for votes in the US Senate is far from perfect. A scaled-down...
for debate regarding all presidential nominations except those to the Supreme Court, and in 2017 the rule was similarly reinterpreted for Supreme Court nominations.) If the legislation under debate would change the Senate’s standing rules, cloture may beinvokedonly on a vote of two-thirds of ...
a long day of debate, Senate Democrat efforts to remove the 60-vote hurdle so that the voting rights legislation can clear the chamber without a single Republican vote still didn't win the support from two members of their own party, resulting in a 52-48 vote that sank the rules change....
Prior to 1917, the Senate rules did not provide for a way to end debate and force a vote. That year, the Senate adopted a rule to allow a two-thirds majority to end a filibuster, according to its official website. By 1975, the Senate agreed to lower it to three-fifths of all sena...