[EpochTimes] Sen. Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
(R-S.C.) said Wednesday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should do anything he needs to stand up to the Democrats’ "radical agenda," including denying quorum.
"To borrow a phrase from Senator Schumer, when it comes to standing up to the most radical agenda in U.S. Senate history—All options are on the table for Republicans," Graham wrote on Twitter. "Republican needs to make it clear that if there is an effort to change the filibuster ... we, as Republicans, will use all the tools in the toolbox to stop the power grab—including the denial of a quorum."
Quorum refers to the number of senators that must be present for the Senate to do business. The Constitution requires a majority of senators (51) for a quorum.
Democrats have recently been more vocal about getting rid of the Senate filibuster, an action that prolongs debate and delays a vote on a measure. Before 1917, Senate rules didn’t provide a way to end a debate and force a vote on a measure, but that year they adopted a rule that enabled a two-thirds majority (67-votes) to end a filibuster via a procedure known as cloture, which later changed to 60-votes.
Many top Democrats including President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter...
, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.38933 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
(D-N.Y.), and Chair of the Senate of Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin
...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois...
(D-Ill.) are calling for an end to the filibuster.
Durbin, who previously supported the filibuster rule, has recently come out in opposition. Durbin in March argued that the filibuster was damaging the nation’s democracy.
McConnell said Republicans would fight back if Democrats eliminated the filibuster to push their agenda forward.
"It would not open up an express lane for the Biden presidency to speed into the history books, the Senate would be more like a 100-car pileup, nothing moving," McConnell recently said on the Senate floor.
Not only are Senate Democrats are coming out in strong opposition to the filibuster, but House Democrats are also calling for it to be abolished.
"Well, at this point in time, we are in the same position. I am one who has said regularly, long before this year, that I thought that the filibuster was undemocratic and inconsistent with the Founder’s principles. I bet you could not find a single Founder, a single writer of the Constitution of the United States, who would have said the Senate cannot pass a bill by majority vote, not one," said House Majority Leader the mealy-mouthed Steny Stinky Hoyer
...Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi's second banana, or plaintain, or mango, or whatever he is. Number Two, anyway...
(D-Md.)
To vote to rid the Senate of the filibuster rule, the Senate would need 51 votes, but two Democrat senators have committed to keeping the rule, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
If the Republicans prevent the Senate from having a quorum, the senate session would be forced to stop and senators would adjourn, severely delaying the legislative process.
"I hope it doesn’t get to this point for the sake of the country," Graham said. 
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