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Both parties bear some responsibility for the filibuster??s increased use, which has been facilitated largely by “Rule 22,” which allows opponents to threaten a filibuster without ever having to execute it, sparing the minority of many of the political consequences of stalling legislation while getting to characterize the other side as ineffectual. But its dramatically increased use over the last three years coincides with the arrival and firm entrenchment of European-style, party-bloc voting by the Republicans, such that the filibuster has become a major impediment to the conduct...
There are a number of interesting proposals floating around for how the rules should be changed. One suggestion is that the votes necessary to invoke cloture—ending a filibuster??incrementally decrease the longer the bill is held up, incentivizing greater engagement among members of the minority party whose influence over legislation would diminish as time went...
This problem has increased markedly since the Republicans became the minority in the Senate in 2007. In the 109th Congress, from 2005 to 2007, motions to vote on cloture—the procedural manifestation of a filibuster??numbered 68. In the 110th Congress, from 2007 to 2009, that number more than doubled to 139. The current Congress is on pace to match that figure, with 67 cloture motions filed this year alone. The current Republican minority has chosen to filibuster anything and everything, subverting majority rule...
...protest filibuster?? staged by the College Dems is a creative and kind of funny protest, but the Republican Club strongly disagrees with the position of the Dems on stalling and obstructionist tactics in the Senate,” Zepeda wrote...
...strong arm their agenda through. To fill openings in the federal courts, the President has appointed a number of ideo-conservative nominees, most of whom are committed to overturning Roe v. Wade and to other conservative objectives. Congressional Democrats, as the minority party, plan to use their right to filibuster??prolonging debate indefinitely to block the nominations—a right that has been enjoyed for more than a hundred years. Republicans are threatening to remove this right...
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