Senate Filibuster

GOP Senator: 'I Would Look At' Filibuster Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.15.2012

WASHINGTON -- One of the Senate's departing moderate Republicans expressed openness on Tuesday to the idea of filibuster reform, lamenting the ideolog...

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Harry Reid: We Should Have Changed The Filibuster Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- After an exasperated rant about Republican obstructionism, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday night that it's time...

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Harry Reid: Filibuster Rules Must Be Reformed

Politico | Posted 05.11.2012

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An angry Harry Reid took to the floor Thursday and demanded changes to the Senate’s hallowed filibuster rules, siding with junior Democrats who have...

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Obama Hits Senate Republicans For 'Obstructionism'

AP | By LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked President Barack Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, partly as payback for...

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Reid Blasts Republicans For Blocking Jobs Bill

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.11.2011

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) criticized Republicans for holding up President Barack Obama's jobs legislation and defended his precedent-...

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Saving the Senate From Itself

Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's role confirms our government is not operating as a democracy ruled by the will of the majority, but as a strangled entity tightly in the grasp of the minority and its take-no-prisoners leader.

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Tell the US Senate Not to Go Home Until DADT Is Repealed

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House has now passed the standalone "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal bill -- legislation I was proud to introduce in the Senate. Now the Senate must get it done and we must stay in session until we do.

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Calling The Senate GOP's Bluff: Multiple Bills Likely To Come Up Before Tax Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate GOP's threat to filibuster every single piece of legislation until the chamber resolves budget and tax cut measures will like...

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Democrats Vow To Push Major Filibuster Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the effort to reform the filibuster in the Senate are pushing forward despite the election outcome, working to gather support...

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Incoming GOP Senator Embraces Filibuster Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Indiana's Senator-elect Dan Coats is endorsing filibuster reform, becoming one of the few Republicans to back a legislative proposal to ...

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Ending America's Polish Paralysis

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama needs to remind the American people that allowing a minority to block action, so that nothing can be decided, is a formula for national weakness.

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Party Like It's 1994

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the 90s, the major "bipartisan" policies that Bill Clinton enacted when he faced a hostile Republican Congress were all disastrous for the country. What was needed then -- and now -- was nothing short of a wholesale reaffirmation of the role of government in society.

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Senate Dysfunction Could Be Tackled By Chamber's Newest Members

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Those who hold the Senate in low esteem can get a sympathetic ear from some of the chamber's newer members. These lawmakers also ar...

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Dodd Presses Senate Freshmen To Back Off Effort To End Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Dodd gathered with the Democratic Senate freshman class on Tuesday night at a dinner organized by Mark Warner to persuade them to back off their...

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Momentum For Senate Filibuster Reform Builds

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Momentum is building to reform Senate rules that allow silent filibusters and force a 60-vote requirement for virtually any action, interviews with De...

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Durbin, Byrd, Mondale Call For Filibuster Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Byrd, whose 50-plus years in the Senate give weight to his thoughts on the institution, charged Wednesday that the minority party has been abus...

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Do We Need to Break up California to Fix Democracy?

Mitch Rofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fact is the federal government isn't "broken" because of the filibuster rules. It's broken because of its two Senators per State structure, regardless of population, that is built into the U.S. Constitution.

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Robert Byrd: Make Them Filibuster

time.com | Posted by Karen Tumulty Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 6:40 Pm | Posted 05.25.2011

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How could I have missed this? The ultimate master of Senate procedure is now arguing the case: "Senators are obliged to exercise their best jud...

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GOP Filibuster Record: Republicans Using Obstruction Tool With Astonishing Frequency

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The filibuster – tool of obstruction in the U.S. Senate – is alternately blamed and praised for wilting President Barac...

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Senator Reid: Stop Folding Your Hand

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Democrats are fighting for their electoral lives against the filibuster, and Harry Reid is folding the few cards left in his hand.

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Should the Senate Go Nuclear?

Bill Lucey | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Congress immobilized and bipartisanship apparently a foreign enemy, is there a way out of this stalemate and climate of inertia? Yes; but it's not easy, it never is in Congress.

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Dodd: Filibuster Reform Is "Foolish", "I'm Totally Opposed" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are a whole host of obstacles preventing Democrats from passing filibuster reform in the Senate. One of them is fellow Democrats. On Wednesday...

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Filibusters Should Promote Democratic Deliberation

Steven P. Croley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ideally, a filibuster ensures that narrow majorities cannot impose dramatic policy changes; in fact, the speechless filibuster doesn't test the strength of competing convictions.

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Obama Can't Fire Anyone: The Hidden Cost of Senate Gridlock

The Washington Post | Ezra Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Like virtually all of Washington, the Senate shut down last week in the face of heavy snow. But while a closed gas station is very different from an o...

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Senate Republicans: Filibuster Everything To Win In November?

McClatchy | David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to limit and often derail Democrats' initiatives, paralyzing the Senate and making it nearly...

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