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The NRCC is now targeting 85 Democratic held seats. [15] They released their initial list February 10, 2021 [16] and added 10 seats to the initial list on May 4, 2021 [17] and a further 13 seats November 3, 2021 after the favorable election night results. They added eight additional seats on March 30, 2022. [18]
Since a 2022 Supreme Court decision overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion, about a dozen U.S. states have passed laws banning or severely limiting abortion rights, which has become a key ...
In order to break a filibuster and clear the way for a vote, nearly two-thirds of the chamber, or 60 votes, must agree to do so. In her remarks Tuesday, Harris limited her suggestion of ending ...
North Carolina’s open Senate race is a crucial opportunity for Democrats to pick up a seat and get rid of the filibuster, the vice president told donors during a fundraiser in Durham.
The Senate fell far short Wednesday in a rushed effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster in a blunt display of the nation's partisan ...
The Democrats had been the majority party in the Senate since 2007, but only briefly did they have the 60 votes necessary to halt a filibuster. The Hill reported that Democrats would "likely" use the nuclear option in January 2013 to effect filibuster reform, [23] but the two parties managed to negotiate two packages of amendments to Senate ...
As a result of these ten filibusters, Senate Republicans began to threaten to change the existing Senate rules by using what Senator Trent Lott termed the "nuclear option". This change in rules would eliminate the use of the filibuster to prevent judicial confirmation votes. However, in the 108th Congress, with only a two-vote majority, the ...
With Democrats now holding the Senate majority, talk of eliminating the filibuster has ramped up. "A filibuster is really extended debate, extended amending activity, whatever it takes to block ...