Agreed. A 2/3 vote should be required. That would ensure real consensus and produce much better government.Its preposterous that legislation can get through the House with a simple majority. Utter nonsense.
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Agreed. A 2/3 vote should be required. That would ensure real consensus and produce much better government.Its preposterous that legislation can get through the House with a simple majority. Utter nonsense.
he killed energy jobs like the keystone pipelineHa any of Biden's EO's affected West Virginia in the negative?
so you're saying there's a chance?
Sen. Joe Manchin on ending the filibuster: 'Jesus Christ, what don't you understand about 'never'?'
The filibuster means that 60 votes are needed to pass most legislation in the Senate.www.businessinsider.com
We need more leaders with the balls to stand up to populist stupidity.Manchin is an embodiment of centrist Democrats’ worst instincts. He says he wants to win over Republican-voting workers, but he is consistently on the wrong side of populist economic issues like a minimum wage hike that are wildly popular among those workers.
if the Buccaneers beat the Chiefs in the Superbowl with the score of 51 to 49, the Chiefs would be champions, according to the filibuster rules...it is outdated, unconstitutional and undemocratic
Dumb thing for him to say."Breaking Senate rules to kill the filibuster would not open up an express lane to liberal change. It would not open up an express lane for the Biden presidency to speed into the history books. The Senate would function more like a hundred-car pile-up. Nothing moving." - Cocaine Mitch