Sen. Angus King Hints That Changes Are Coming To The Filibuster

[applegrove]

Sen. Angus King Hints That Changes Are Coming To The Filibuster

Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said while discussing the new voting rights bill that he thinks changes are coming to the filibuster.

Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/15/sen-angus-king-hints-that-changes-are-coming-to-the-filibuster.html

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Sen. King said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House:

Everybody is onboard in the caucus with this bill, including two Independents, myself and Bernie. So the question is what will we do next? Jeff Merkley from Oregon has really done an enormous amount of work on this, trying to find ways to modify the filibuster in such a way, for example, to make people talk. 

The public has an impression that the filibuster, you go and you’ve got to hold the floor for hours and hours and hours. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. That’s not true anymore. It’s too damn easy.  A senator can phone it in. I am opposed. I will filibuster. Okay, requires 60 votes. So one of the options is to make it er and make the people who want to block things hold the floor and make their argument to the American people. There are a lot of other possibilities. 

Instead of requiring 60 votes to go ahead, you require 40 votes to stop. That means they have to show up. So as I say, there are going to be lots of discussions. I believe, Nicolle, that you’re going to see some changes in the filibuster as a result not of what the Democrats and the Democratic caucus want to do but because the Republicans won’t even discuss the issue. 

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[Budi]

1. It will eventually be given no choice but to change the rules.

[kirby]

2. If not now, then when McConnell is majority leader again. n/t

[Budi]

4. Nope. It'll be forced to change in this term.

That's where its heading.
Pissy thing is, it should have already been done.

[WarGamer]

6. Trump pushed McConnell in 2017

McConnell refused to trash the filibuster.

[MiniMe]

10. At that point, Mitch will control what is brought up and voted on. So it will have to be before Mitc

is in control

[UTUSN]

3. Glad he's recovered, we need him!

[WarGamer]

5. That's a rather tame headline for Jason and Politicus...

His usual style is more like "Grim Reaper coming for Filibuster..."

[vercetti2021]

7. No they aren't

Let's be honest. The two ********* are more concerned with protecting it than saving democracy

[Hotler]

8. I saw him on Nicolle's show and he was cry-bagging that the American people

don't understand why the Dems are weak on changing it, he's concerned about what could happen when the repugs get power. Sounds like a repug talking point, when we take back power we will remember. I say fuck that shit and start shoving shit down their throats to vote on.

[Poiuyt]

9. Democrats are taking kind of a defeatist attitude toward the fillibuster.