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Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., arguably the most vulnerable senator in 2024, has said he would not eliminate the filibuster and instead would support a so-called "talking filibuster," as he did for the ...
Harris wants Congress to pass a national law codifying access to a safe abortion. The support of 60 senators is required to pass most legislation in the upper chamber at present.
Trump vs. Harris on abortion and the filibuster. In 2017, when he was president, Donald Trump called on Republicans in the Senate to end the filibuster so that the party could repeal the ...
The Laken Riley Act defeated the legislative filibuster during a procedural vote on Thursday, amassing more than 60 votes to advance it to a final vote. The measure sailed past the filibuster by a ...
Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats have called for a "carve-out" from the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade nationwide, while former President Donald Trump has endorsed curtailing the ...
Filibusters have been a feature of Senate debate since the chamber’s inauguration in 1789. In 1917, rules were changed requiring a two-thirds majority (then 64 senators) to end debate, a process ...
Wade if she’s elected president – and if Democrats’ win control of Congress. "I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said during ...
"I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe," Harris said on the "Wisconsin Today" show. "And get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the ...