DC delegate: 'The filibuster is on its last legs'
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the only representative for D.C. in Congress, said in an interview published on Tuesday that she believes the "filibuster is on its last legs" while discussing the push for D.C. statehood.
Speaking with GEN Senior Editor Max Ufberg, Norton pointed out that a small majority of Americans - 54 percent, according to a recent poll from Data for Progress - supported D.C. statehood, and argued that keeping the filibuster has resulted in Senate inaction that prevents this from happening.
"In the Senate, look at what happened this year. The Senate was late in organizing because of all the opposition to the filibuster. The Senate doesn't do anything anymore, and the reason for that is the filibuster," Norton told Ufberg. "The filibuster is on its last legs. That puts D.C. closer to statehood than we have ever any chance of believing we would have. If you move to a talking filibuster, we're on our way there."
President Biden last week said for the first time that he was in favor of changing Senate filibuster rules to bring back the talking filibuster, appearing to move away from the White House's previous stated position of not wanting to change the filibuster.
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