The Democrat President, who is a creature of a US Senate past has had reversal of thought….
He did NOT support any changes in the Senate process…
But blocked by the Senate rules….
And certainly aware that Republican’s HAVE set aside the filibuster rule when they wanted to…
AND?
Watching Republicans across the country move to exclude Democrats from voting….
He seem’s to have had a ‘come to Jesus’ move on this….
Republicans will NEVER approve any Voting Right’s Reform…
It would cost them votes and seats in Congress and the Presidency…
Biden needs to join the effort to get Senator’s Manchin and Sinema to vote for a Voting Right’s Bill and get the Senate passage…The House is a lock for Democrats….Right Now….But?…Probably won’t be a little more than a year from now….
Oh?
And the President seem’s to indicate that he might want some other legislation passed that way also….
Joe Biden IS actually leaving his Senator hat on the side and wearing the President one….
Bout time…..
President Joe Biden says he supports making an exception to the Senate filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation.
Opting rights should be our highest priority.
Voting rights (stupid iPad!)
Well, look at it this way, Zr: to vote is to opt between choices. A majority of U.S. voters opted for the Democrat against Trump in 2016 & 2020.
This is NOT the situation….
Democrats want a ‘set aside’ for the Voting Rights Bill…
and maybe a few more…
NOT GETTING RID of the process …..
Republicans AND Democrats have done this set aside several times in the past…..
Manchin Doubles Down In Defense of Filibuster
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) doubled down Tuesday on his support for the filibuster as President Biden heads to Georgia to publicly push for changes to the Senate rule in order to pass voting rights legislation,” The Hill reports.
Said Manchin: “We need some good rules changes to make the place work better. But getting rid of the filibuster doesn’t make it work better.”
More Filibuster BS ……
Senate Republicans are threatening they will attempt a takeover of the Senate agenda by forcing votes on issues ranging from the Keystone XL pipeline to abortion rules to a U.S-Mexico border wall if Democrats weaken the filibuster.
Republicans are also looking at smaller bills such as a proposal to prohibit the administration from imposing a fracking ban by executive order, a prohibition on the IRS implementing new reporting on banks to disclose individuals’ banking activity and mandatory detention for illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes.
Senate Republican leaders on Monday said they have a list of bills they will try to bring to the floor under Rule 14 and debate if Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) rounds up enough Democrats to lower the threshold for beginning debate on a bill from 60 votes to 50….
More….
For the millionth time?
BOTH parties HAVE set aside the filibuster in the past….
And the Democrats will NOT try to get rid of it completely….
It has never been attempted to be done away with in regards to anything remotely related to actual legislation.
Needless to say, Democrats, when they have been in the minority, and especially under a Republican President, were hellbent on keeping the filibuster.
So, they should be concerned about the concept of what comes around goes around.