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American politician (born 1976)
Two independents — Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Angus King (Maine) — continue to caucus with Senate Democrats in the 119th Congress, and reporting and official Senate listings count them with the Democrat...
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act passed the House on January 13, 2022, by , and failed in the Senate when a cloture motion on January 19, 2022, fell , leaving the bill without the 60 votes neede...
A slate of targeted procedural fixes—ranging from a “talking filibuster,” carve-outs for voting and democracy bills, a “step‑down” cloture process or one‑off nuclear option, and raising the floor for ...
From 2021 through early 2022, Chuck Schumer publicly signaled willingness to change or at least vote on altering the Senate’s legislative filibuster to advance major Democratic priorities — especially...
Current debates about reforming or eliminating the Senate filibuster center on a clash between and protections for Senate minority rights, with concrete reform proposals ranging from a full abolition ...
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Senate majority leaders like Chuck Schumer act as the principal architects and public conveners of filibuster reform efforts: they set the agenda, call for votes, and can push the Senate toward using ...
The period 2021–2025 saw repeated, serious proposals to change the Senate filibuster ranging from procedural tweaks to outright elimination, with . Political reality kept most proposals unrealized: in...
Sen. Mark Kelly has publicly tied his willingness to help end the 2025 shutdown to concrete policy demands, most prominently protections for Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) premium subsidies and immed...