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On April 6, 2017, the Republican-controlled Senate voted 52 to 48 to require only a majority vote to end a filibuster of Supreme Court nominees. [65] A three-fifths (60 vote) supermajority is still required to end filibusters on legislation. While president, Donald Trump spoke out against the 60-vote requirement for legislation on several ...
The relatively easy confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet? ... Act had 100 senators vote for it, to create a filibuster free pathway for only one reason, and that one reason was ...
It permitted raising the deficit by $1.5 trillion over ten years. The Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 by a 51–48 vote on December 20, 2017, [80] with the House passing it by a 224–201 vote later that day. [81] President Trump repeatedly called on Senate Republicans to abolish or reform the filibuster throughout 2017 and 2018 ...
Then-president Barack Obama, a Democrat, nominated Merrick Garland to succeed Scalia on March 16, 2016, but the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate did not vote on the nomination. Majority leader Mitch McConnell declared that as the presidential election cycle had already commenced, it made the appointment of the next justice a political issue to ...
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 ...
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 Affordable ...
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The filibuster—an extended speech designed to stall legislation—began at 8:54 p.m. [a] and lasted until 9:12 p.m. the following day, a duration of 24 hours and 18 minutes. This made the filibuster the longest single-person filibuster in United States Senate history, a record that still stands as of 2025.