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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if Democrats need to consider ending the 60-vote filibuster threshold to pass legislation if Republicans don’t work with them.

President Joe Biden undercut the leadership of his own party in the United States Senate on Friday by signaling his continuing opposition to scrapping the legislative filibuster.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reiterated his promise to oppose packing the court or ending the filibuster. After viewing a clip of his earlier vow, Manchin responded, “It’s all the same.

On Wednesday’s “MSNBC Live,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) stated that Democrats will “study and look at” eliminating the filibuster if they take the majority in the Senate and stated that “we do need to reform the Senate so it is

Georgia voters should not be fooled by Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) pledge to oppose the radical-left Democrat plan to pack the Supreme Court and kill the filibuster.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) vowed that he will not vote for packing the courts or ending the filibuster if Democrats take the majority in the Senate. Manchin also expressed opposition

Thursday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” conservative talker Mark Levin urged viewers to vote for President Donald Trump next week and protect certain American institutions.

Democrat Mark Kelly refused to answer a question about whether he would vote to kill the Senate filibuster if elected during the Arizona Senate debate on Tuesday night.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that former Vice President Joe Biden would pack the Supreme Court, end the Senate filibuster, and make Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, states to “entrench” Democrat power.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that he would “love to” make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and addressed the prospect of ending the filibuster if Democrats take the Senate by stating,

Appearing Thursday on CNN, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he has absolutely no regrets about his role in eliminating the filibuster on judicial nominations as President Donald Trump readies his third nominee for the Supreme Court.

“Thank you very much Harry, I hope you are enjoying your evening,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida. 

Arizona early voting is just 15 days away and Democrat Senate candidate Mark Kelly still has not revealed his position on the filibuster.

There is nothing new about Democrats’ radical plans. Ginsburg’s passing is simply a pretext for them to pretend Republicans have forced them to adopt extreme measures.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on the Senate floor on Monday that Democrats’ talk of scrapping the filibuster would “permanently disfigure” Congress’s upper chamber.

Democrats are becoming increasingly open about the fact that they intent to kill the Senate filibuster if they win the elections in November.

A cadre of high-profile Democrats are assembling a coalition to kill the Senate filibuster should former Vice President Joe Biden win this November and the party take full control of Congress.

During an interview with SiriusXM’s “Joe Madison Show” on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that Democrats have “a moral imperative” “to get a whole lot done,” if they control the White House, the majority in the Senate,

During an interview at the 2020 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) Joint Virtual Convention released on Wednesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stated that if Congressional Republicans “are as

On Tuesday’s “MSNBC Live,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that he hopes Democrats are “united behind a very strong, progressive agenda” and stated that President Obama spoke to this idea “when he said that we have to take on gerrymandering,

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) declared Thursday that he supports former President Barack Obama’s proposal to “eliminate the filibuster” to allow Democrats to push through changes to the nation’s election laws.

Former President Barack Obama used his eulogy at the funeral of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) to call for an end to the Senate filibuster to pass Democrats’ new legislation on voting reform.

Tuesday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his program with a warning of what could happen if Democrats regained control of the U.S. Senate, and the immediate impact it could have on the country.

Joe Biden is refusing to rule out scrapping the Senate filibuster, arguing it remains to be seen how “obstreperous” Republicans will be after President Donald Trump leaves office.

A cadre of Senate Democrats are already in talks to abolish the filibuster provided former Vice President Joe Biden wins the November general election and their party secures a majority in the chamber.

Joe Biden is remaining quiet about comments one of his top congressional allies made, suggesting Senate Democrats would be open to abolishing the filibuster were the former vice president to win in November.

Senate Democrats filibustered a police reform bill introduced by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Wednesday, blocking an effort at bipartisan reforms in the wake of nationwide unrest over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.

One of Joe Biden’s top allies in congress is open to scrapping the filibuster if the former vice president were to win in November.

Several prominent liberal groups are joining the push by some Democrats to expand the Supreme Court to eleven justices, a move designed to eliminate the Court’s current 5-4 conservative majority.

Dozens of former Warren staffers endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in an open letter on Tuesday as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) continues to withhold an endorsement.

Most Democrat college students say that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) won the Democrat debate in Houston, Texas, according to a Chegg-College Pulse poll conducted immediately after the three-hour event.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called to eliminate the Senate’s filibuster rule in order to pass aggressive gun control measures – such as universal background checks and an assault weapons ban – during Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told NPR that the most important issue Congress needs to address is climate change.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” MSNBC analyst former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) pushed back on calls to eliminate the filibuster by pointing to what Republicans could have done if Democrats didn’t have the filibuster during the first two

During a speech on Friday, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that “if Mitch McConnell tries to do what he did to President Obama,” when Democrats hold the White House again, “then we should get rid of the

Senate Republicans are preparing to reinterpret Senate Rules in coming weeks to reduce the number of hours required to confirm presidential nominations, responding to Democrats’ unprecedented obstruction of President Trump’s nominees for both the judiciary and the Executive Branch.