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Home Front: Politix
Sen. Joe Manchin pledges support for the filibuster in new op-ed
2021-04-08
[NYPOST] West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has pledged that under "no circumstance" will he vote to eliminate the filibuster amid a push by his other members of his party to reform the rule."I have said it before and will say it again to remove any shred of doubt," Manchin, a moderate, wrote in a op-ed published in The Washington Post on Wednesday.

"There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster," he wrote.

"The time has come to end these political games, and to usher a new era of bipartisanship where we find common ground on the major policy debates facing our nation."

Progressive Democrats in the Upper Chamber have been leading a push to abolish the filibuster in order to more easily pass the party’s more ambitious legislative proposals.

Top Democratic leaders, including 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 45.33862 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
and Majority Whip 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...
have all recently announced support for filibuster reform.



Posted by:Fred

#3  Let's compromise: Democrats can use the filibuster, but Republicans can't.
Posted by: Matt   2021-04-08 12:45  

#2  The 17th Amendment started this process to make the Senate irrelevant
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-08 12:15  

#1  That's not very effective arm twisting there, Chucky.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-04-08 11:34  

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