CBS’s The Late Show host Stephen Colbert played sore loser on Monday’s show when he suggested getting rid of the U.S. Senate, calling it an “anti-democratic” institution following the Democrats’ failure to eliminate the filibuster. Stephen Colbert was chatting with
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Tuesday that he would be open to primarying Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who do not support breaking the filibuster.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” that the Senate’s filibuster was “racist” in its origin and intent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called the U.S. Supreme Court “an extremist United States Supreme Court,” and claimed they “gutted the voting rights act” of 1965, which opened the door to stop black people, Hispanics, and other minorities from voting.
Democrats on Tuesday admitted that they will add the attempted federal takeover of elections to their list of legislative failures despite efforts to break the filibuster.
The Senate will try to pass on Tuesday voting rights legislation by breaking the Senate’s centuries-old filibuster rule.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC that Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) did not “care” about black people.
Monday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) reacted to Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) recent criticism of Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) for refusing to end the Senate filibuster.
This week on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night America,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) railed against the Democratic Party’s effort to end the Senate filibuster.
Biden will have been president officially for one year next Thursday and has “never been less popular nationally.”
President Joe Biden on Thursday suffered tremendous setbacks to his agenda in a 24-hour period, placing Democrats in a precarious position heading into the 2022 midterms.
The president tried to get the Senate to end the filibuster rules, which require a 60-vote majority to advance legislation, in order to pass legislation to federalize elections.
Democrats used the Senate filibuster, which they are busy trying to eliminate, to block a bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday that would have sanctioned companies associated with Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The bill had 55 votes.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Thune (R-SD) expressed disappointment that Democratic opposition kept Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) measure to reimpose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from meeting the 60-vote threshold
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Thursday maintained their stance on not changing the long-established Senate filibuster rule.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (R-AZ) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday rejected President Biden’s plea to destroy the 60-vote filibuster threshold that would make way for the destruction of election integrity.
The House passed on Thursday two “freedom to cheat” voting bills that would eviscerate Republican attempts to increase election integrity in states across the nation.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday in a preview clip of her interview with NBC’s “Today Show” that she would “not absolve” any senators from the responsibility of passing the Democrats voting legislation, including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).
Only four percent say the economy has recovered under Joe Biden’s leadership, a YouGov poll released Wednesday revealed.
Fifty-three percent of likely voters support the Senate’s 60 vote filibuster threshold, an increase of six percent since June, Wednesday’s OnMessage poll revealed.
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sounded off on the Democrats’ efforts to end the Senate filibuster as they push to pass voting rights legislation.
“Last week, President Harris and I…” Biden began, referring to their speeches on Capitol Hill marking the first anniversary of the January 6th protests of the 2020 election.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has many options for reforming the Senate’s filibuster rules but faces a steep uphill climb to change the Senate’s centuries-old rule.
President Joe Biden plans to deliver an angry speech condemning Georgia’s election integrity laws on Tuesday, describing Republicans as a domestic threat to the right to vote and democracy itself.
Democrats are using “Democrat logic” to “save” democracy through destroying it, warned Nicholas Giordano, a professor of political science and host of The P.A.S. Report, as he accused them of posing a threat to the country’s political stability and blasted their use of the January 6 Capitol riot to advance their political agendas.
Sen. Chuck Schumer seeks to destroy election integrity by terminating the 60 vote filibuster threshold, but a video revealed eight Democrats have defended the filibuster for decades, including President Biden.
The president is expected to use the issue of voting rights to call for reform of the Senate filibuster rules and condemn Republicans, according to a Politico preview of the speech.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that if Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) blocked the Democrats from changing the filibuster rules to pass voting rights, he should be condemned and likened to former Sen. Strom Thurmond, an opponent of the Civil Rights Movement.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) stated that Democrats used the filibuster, which they now decry as a “racist relic” against his police reform legislation and “against the most marginalized communities, where
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) attacked Republican “opponents of democracy,” in a speech on the Senate floor on the eve of the January 6 Capitol riot anniversary.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson said in a joint statement Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is using the anniversary of January 6 to seize “permanent” political power, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA), looking to make a statement in the crowded Democrat Senate primary in Pennsylvania, reaffirmed his pledge to end the filibuster if elected to the Senate.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has once again killed President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, telling reporters on Tuesday that it’s deader than ever.
During an interview that aired live on CNN, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) discussed the Democrats’ ongoing negotiations to pass voting rights legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the “new” Republican Party under former President Donald Trump was “viciously against voting rights.”
Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) pushed for changes to be made to the filibuster and the passage of voting rights legislation.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the slim Democratic majority in the Senate is “looking at different ways to reform the filibuster.”
Despite the filibuster having aided Republicans under the current circumstances to fend off liberal legislation as Democrats now control the House, Senate and White House, Mo Brooks still thinks the filibuster rule should go.
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the Republican Party is attempting to stop “Black people, Chicanos, Asian-American people from voting.”
The Senate passed a provision on Thursday that would allow the body to more easily raise the debt ceiling by breaking the Senate filibuster.
