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The U.S. Senate's "filibuster" rule requires 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber to advance most legislation. ... including a $1 trillion infrastructure bill - was passed this way, as were Trump's ...
The House passed voting rights legislation on Thursday in a way that is intended to set up a battle in the Senate over that issue as well as the filibuster.The measure passed in a 220-203 party ...
The House overwhelmingly passed the bill 366-34, followed by the Senate’s 85-11 approval — after Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk objected Thursday to what ...
The House later passed the American Health Care Act of 2017 as a budget reconciliation bill by a vote of 217–213 on May 4, 2017. In July, the Senate Parliamentarian advised that certain provisions of the House bill must be stricken (as extraneous non-budgetary matter) under the Byrd rule before proceeding under reconciliation. [77]
This modified version of the bill passed the House on August 27 by a vote of 279–97. [3] Strom Thurmond, a United States senator from South Carolina, remarked that the civil rights bill constituted a "cruel and unusual punishment", [7] and stated that he hoped to "educate the country" by means of an extended speech against the legislation. [8]
The Senate has sent a stopgap government funding bill to President Biden’s desk, averting a shutdown. The bill passed the House earlier in the day, wrapping up a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill ...
MPs are allowed to give such speeches each time a vote takes place, and many votes were needed before the bill could be passed. As the Conservative Party of Canada held a majority in the House, the bill passed. [11] [12] This was the longest filibuster since the 1999 Reform Party of Canada filibuster, on native treaty issues in British Columbia ...
Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights groups argued is vital for protecting democracy was blocked Wednesday by a Republican filibuster, a setback for President Joe Biden and his party ...