U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged Republicans to eliminate the filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed on Sunday. "For generations, the filibuster has been romanticized as the Senate's ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has joined President Trump in a push to end the Senate’s filibuster rule. “The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for the elimination of the filibuster on Sunday, urging Senate Republicans to terminate it “immediately” if the government shuts down again in late January, ...
Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has ...
The filibuster is probably the funniest strategy in American congressional procedure. Consider how ridiculous the basic premise of a filibuster is. You can hold up the functioning of the government ...
Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has ...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on her calls for the GOP to abolish the filibuster to pass President Trump’s agenda in an interview with “Pod Force One” released Wednesday.
OMAHA — In the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Unicameral, the Democratic-leaning minority bloc currently has 16 seats, including progressive Omaha nonpartisan State Sen. Megan Hunt. That means the ...
During the recent government shutdown, we heard the familiar yet alarming rallying cry to abolish the filibuster. The pitch, which even came from President Trump, comes wrapped in phrases like “get ...
During last week’s episode of the Truth and Liberty livecast, titled “Breaking the Gridlock,” host Richard Harris, a prominent Republican activist, called for the end of the Senate filibuster. “It’s a ...
The filibuster became part of the Nebraska Legislature’s procedures in 1937, when the one-house Unicameral first convened. Loren Lippincott is senator for District 34 in the Nebraska Legislature.