Durbin ‘leaning’ to vote to abolish the filibuster should Dems retake control of Senate
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Durbin ‘leaning’ to vote to abolish the filibuster should Dems retake control of Senate
By Yahoo.com, August 24, 2020
The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate said on Friday that he was leaning toward abolishing the legislative filibuster, which would allow new laws to be passed more easily by the party in the majority.
“I can tell you that’s where I’m leaning,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s minority whip, told Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast. “I will tell you, I have been frustrated for a hell of a long time because of this filibuster.”
Republicans and some moderate Democrats oppose abolishing the filibuster, but momentum for doing so has been building in recent years as gridlock has taken hold in the GOP-controlled Senate. Polls of the 2020 election show Democrats could possibly retake control of the chamber.
“All the cards are on the table. [Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer made that clear yesterday, and a lot of us have been thinking about this. It boils down to this: The Senate has become dysfunctional under [Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell because of his passionate commitment to filling every single judicial vacancy with these ideologues that they dream up with the Federalist Society.
“We’ve done nothing,” continued Durbin. “Last year, in 2019, the United States Senate in the entire calendar year, we considered on the floor of the United States Senate 22 amendments. Twenty-two in an entire year, and six of them were laughers introduced by Rand Paul with a gun to our head — ‘You can’t go home unless you give me a vote.’ That is a disintegration of the Senate before our eyes. There are many of us who run and ran for public office to do something. If the Senate rules stop us from doing something, we’ve got to take a look at the rules, and I don’t rule out the filibuster being on the table in terms of reform.”
The legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes instead of a simple majority to approve bills, is not mandated by the Constitution. It is the result of an early 19th century rule change. In the 1950s and ’60s, segregationist senators used it to block civil rights legislation, and it’s recently been used to stymie a variety of bills. In 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, eliminated the filibuster that required 60 votes to confirm most judicial nominees and executive appointments. In 2017, McConnell and Republicans removed the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees in order to confirm Neil Gorsuch.
Source: https://gellerreport.com/2020/08/dem-durbin-overthrow-filibuster.html/
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