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Senate Republican support for eliminating the filibuster is picking up momentum after President Trump invited members of the Senate GOP conference to the White House for a breakfast meeting
Getting rid of the Senate filibuster to end the government shutdown would be a bad move for Republicans. There's no return once that line is crossed.
Whenever the gavel switches from the hands of one party to the other in the Senate, lawmakers engage in a public round of debate about a long-established political tradition — the filibuster. With the country split along party lines and the Senate ...
Senate Republicans aren’t ready to go "nuclear" again to change the rules around the Senate filibuster as Senate Democrats dig deeper against the GOP’s push to reopen the government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Republicans need at ...
The No. 4 Democrat in the House is egging on Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster as each side blames the other for the current government shutdown. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), the vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said it would take a simple ...
Nine days into the government shutdown, Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia tells CNN’s Dana Bash she’s against abolishing the filibuster to end the funding stalemate. “It sounds like an easy fix, but we’re talking about setting ...
Ky., and Fox News contributor Kaylee McGhee White agree that the Democrats are harming the American people with their shutdown decisions on ‘Hannity.’