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After 60 days of consideration of the bill, cloture was invoked by a 71–29 vote on June 10, 1964. This was only the second successful cloture vote since 1927. [29] From 1917 to 1970, the Senate took a cloture vote nearly once a year (on average); during this time, there were a total of 49 cloture votes. [30]
President Biden called for a change to the filibuster after months of activists pushing him to do so. However, some members of his party are hesitant to alter the rules.
Just minutes before Biden’s planned speech, the Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona said again that she opposes changing the filibuster rule, suggesting the 60-vote rule forces bipartisan dialogue.
Thus, reconciliation bills only require the support of a simple majority of the Senate for passage, rather than the 60-vote supermajority required to invoke cloture and defeat a filibuster. [a] [10] Senators could theoretically prevent passage of a reconciliation bill by offering an unending series of amendments in a process colloquially known ...
The Associated Press called the presidential race around 5:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday after Trump won 276 electoral votes to Harris’s 223, although Trump declared victory at 2:30 a.m. ET during a ...
President Biden formally began his speech at 9:26 p.m. EST [3] on March 7, 2024; his speech was scheduled for 9 p.m. EST. [4] Like President Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address, Biden began the address without an introduction from the Speaker of the House, breaking with a SOTU custom.
The fate of the Senate filibuster is on the ballot in the 2024 election, as Democrats rally around weakening it to codify abortion rights and bolstering federal voting rights.
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.