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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Republicans threaten to stop all Senate business Biden reveals he'd support filibuster reform
He told George Stephanopoulos he wants to return to the "talking filibuster."
Biden, for the first time, says he wants to overhaul the filibuster
WILMINGTON President Biden said Tuesday he wants the Senate to overhaul the filibuster, embracing for the first time a major change to the chamber's rules that could make it easier for him to enact a far-reaching agenda that is blocked by Republicans.
I dont think that you have to eliminate the filibuster. You have to do what it used to be when I first got to the Senate back in the old days, Biden told ABCs George Stephanopoulos in an interview to be aired Wednesday. You had to stand up and command the floor, you had to keep talking . . . so youve got to work for the filibuster.
So youre for that reform? Youre for bringing back the talking filibuster? Stephanopoulos said.
I am. Thats what it was supposed to be, Biden replied. Its almost getting to the point where democracy is having a hard time functioning.
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(24,610 posts)Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)babylonsister
(171,091 posts)trying to explain why they believe...anything? That's a short conversation.
former9thward
(32,077 posts)Senators are allowed to read the names in phone books, read articles in newspapers, anything. It does not have to have anything to do with the subject of the bill.
babylonsister
(171,091 posts)So it's a time waster, sounds like. Who can wear who down.
catrose
(5,073 posts)Marcuse
(7,506 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)for one thing, you can't go off topic. The opposing side can ding you for that and 4 dings and you are done
no sitting, eating, or bathroom breaks
no leaning on furniture
Wendy Davis did this for 13 hours; wearing a catheter
KS Toronado
(17,317 posts)Probably not a lot of filibustering going on in Texas. McTurtle has it so that a senator can start a filibuster,
have a clerk read it while they go to lunch, even home to bed. Small wonder congress is broken.
orleans
(34,073 posts)Vdizzle
(383 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)PortTack
(32,793 posts)We must must must pass HR1!!
Politicub
(12,165 posts)Without a vibrant democracy, we will quickly devolve into GOP autocracy.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Ted "Green Eggs and Ham" Cruz?
Fist Bump Fish Head Hawley?
Marble Mouthed Mitch?
Anyone . . . . Beuller?
moondust
(20,006 posts)to prevent uncompromising OFFENSIVE tyranny--ramming through a deeply partisan agenda.
Did they not consider uncompromising DEFENSIVE tyranny--using it to prevent ANYTHING from getting passed in order to make the other party look bad?
ancianita
(36,133 posts)HAMLET: ... though it make the unskilful
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the
censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be
players that I have seen play, and heard others
praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely,
that, neither having the accent of Christians nor
the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so
strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of
nature's journeymen had made men and not made them
well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
First Player: I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir.
HAMLET: O, reform it altogether. And let those that play
your clowns speak no more than is set down for them...
that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
in the fool that uses it...."
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)The people are with Joe. His policies are supported by democratic and Republican citizens alike. Thats bipartisanship.
The problem is, the GOP members of Congress are out of touch with their constituents. Theyre only in power because of gerrymandering.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)With unlimited filibusters, every bill gets filibustered. Make it one filibuster per senator per year,
notinkansas
(1,096 posts)Then the ones who are comfortable in the spotlight don't get to always steal the show.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)It will make them really think hard about the bills they plan to filibuster. In the Congress we have now, no thought is necessary since everything is filibustered. At one filibuster per year, they might not filibuster "An Act to Make Salt the Official Seasoning for French Fries, Even Though It Kinda Already Is" or "An Act to Require the New York City Military Entrance and Processing Station to play 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree' Every Year on the Date Arlo Guthrie was Rejected for Military Service" just because a Democrat wrote the bill.