![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, all 50 Senate Democrats agree on voting rights reforms, but they do not agree on whether to change the Senate's rules to pass them.įor more on the debate over the filibuster, we turn to Adam Jentleson, the executive director of Battle Born Collective, a progressive communications firm, and former adviser to Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Brian Darling, senior adviser to Navigators Global, a conservative communications firm, and former adviser to Republican Senator Rand Paul. It has changed some, with a lower threshold and 161, at least, work-arounds in its first 100 years. Long speeches have always been part of the Senate, but requiring a supermajority vote to end them, that came in 1917. And it's why there is a 60-vote threshold for most Senate bills. Judy, it's called the filibuster, the right of senators to derail votes, in theory, with infinite debate. ![]()
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