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Top Democrats are now calling on President Biden to lobby for “filibuster reform” in order to ram through the legislation this time around.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that “the filibuster ought not apply to anything akin to a constitutional issue.” And so Roe v. Wade “ought not be subjected to a filibuster.”  Clyburn said, “I’ve said,

Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that public opinion has shifted dramatically in favor of eliminating the filibuster so the Senate can pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm over an amnesty provision slipped into Senate Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution framework that they are seeking to shove through Congress via the filibuster-proof reconciliation process. 

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) argued that “the filibuster, which is a relic of the racist past of this nation, is no longer effective in advancing the just will of a minority.” Johnson

During an interview that aired Monday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called for ending the Senate filibuster to push through so-called voting rights legislation.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), along with others, was arrested in the Hart Senate Office Building by Capitol Police on Thursday after she led a protest into the building.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) praised the “brave and persevering Texas legislators” who have fled the state to prevent the passage of voting legislation, and argued that the filibuster needs to be altered

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” host Don Lemon responded to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) praising Democrats in Texas who fled the state to prevent the passage of voting legislation and denouncing the filibuster as “tyranny of the

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will lose support among West Virginians come re-election time if he votes for a Democrat budget, via filibuster-proof reconciliation, that includes amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, a poll provided to Breitbart News reveals.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” that “paranoid” Republicans are attempting to take away the voting rights of Black and Brown Americans because two Democrats won their U.S. Senate races in Georgia.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) suggested that there are discussions about refusing to vote for infrastructure legislation in order to pressure Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to eliminate the filibuster. Host Joy

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said there should be “an exemption, whatever you want to call it” to the filibuster, “for the sake of saving our fundamental democracy.” And praised the Texas legislators who

Vice President Kamala Harris suggested Tuesday on NPR that she has talked to senators about a voting rights exception to the legislative filibuster suggested to her by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC).

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” network anchor Al Sharpton called for a workaround for the filibuster to secure more voting rights.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) slammed Democrats in the Texas state legislature for “using a filibuster to flee the state of Texas” to stop the passage of election legislation while

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) praised Texas Democrats fleeing the state to prevent the passage of voting legislation and argued that we need to abolish the filibuster due to “obstruction after obstruction” on

Former Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) said Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day” that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has too much power, which is putting the Senate on “life support.”

Left-wing actress Rosanna Arquette said in a Twitter rant that fossil fuels will be the “end of mankind,” issuing the dire warning to her 193k Twitter followers the day before Independence Day.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison discussed Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and their reluctance to do away with the filibuster to pass voting legislation and stated that “Rome is on fire.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called to eliminate the filibuster on Friday, saying it is preventing Democrats from passing their radical “voting rights” legislation, which would ultimately nationalize U.S. elections.

A coalition of 75 far-left groups sent a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to demand her to schedule a town hall during the Senate’s two-week hiatus to talk about nuking the filibuster and election reform.

Left-wing Hollywood stars are rushing to help Democrats end the Senate filibuster rule after the Democrat-backed H.R. 1, or the “For the People” Act, failed to pass Congress.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) knocked Sen. Dianne Feinstein due to her lack of support for getting rid of the filibuster as part of a Democrat Party effort to enact the Biden administration’s agenda. 

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she was for ditching the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate because once enacted, “popular” Democratic legislation passed on a simple majority can not be repealed by Republicans.

Some moderate Democrats are warning that they will not support the radical left’s spending package, which includes demands for “reconciliation instructions for trillions of dollars in additional spending,” according to reports.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday suggested she will blow up the bipartisan infrastructure bill if the Senate does not also pass a reconciliation bill.

Appearing Wednesday on NBC’s “Late Night” with host Seth Meyers, former President Bill Clinton argued that suspending the Senate filibuster would be an act of “preserving democracy” in the United States.

Sen. Angus King (I-ME) will stand behind keeping the filibuster after previously saying he was for scrapping the filibuster for “voting rights” and “democracy.”

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that “cowardly” Republican governors and state legislatures were undermining democracy by passing election legislation.

Ten people were reportedly arrested outside the Phoenix office of Sen. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) on Tuesday while protesting her support to maintain the filibuster.

Activist Rev. Mark Thompson said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Senate Republicans using the filibuster to stop debate in the Senate is “apartheid.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday dismantled the Democrats’ anti-filibuster claims, where they claim it is a product of the Jim Crow era, after using it multiple times over the years to stop Republican legislation.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that the filibuster is an “arcane and abhorrent rule that the founders would have absolutely rejected.” And admitted that Democrats have used it numerous times. After Blumenthal said

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) stated that her viewpoints on the filibuster have changed because there is now “a perversion of the rules” and that the founders supported majority rule and people “will

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that he supported removing or reforming the filibuster so Democrats could pass legislation in the U.S. Senate with a simple majority vote in order to “save our democracy.”