Sentences with phrase «filibuster proof»

You won't get a filibuster proof senate in DC with Rump, you won't get one here in NY State with the IDC.

The drive for 60 is to have a FILIBUSTER proof majority.

«Specter's decision would give Democrats a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate assuming Democrat Al Franken is eventually sworn in as the next Senator from Minnesota.»

Not exact matches

In November 2008, an election year that swept a barrier - breaking dynamo of the opposite party into the White House and pumped Democratic numbers in the chamber to 59 (and soon after, a filibuster - proof 60), McConnell barely eked out a win.

Plus, Republicans won't have a filibuster - proof Senate majority.

But it has 12 Democratic cosponsors, giving it a filibuster - proof majority, Vox reports.

The fruit of these efforts is not the hoped - for Republican governing majority, but the real prospect of a filibuster - proof Democrat majority in 2009.

If the goal of the K Street Project was to earmark and fund raise our way to a filibuster - proof «governing» majority, the goal of «compassionate conservatism» was to spend our way to a governing majority.

The House passed a $ 154 billion bill in December, but momentum has stalled in the Senate, where Democrats recently lost their 60 - vote filibuster - proof edge.

This will mean that while the Democratic House majority will be reduced in the next Congress in 2011 - 2012, overall Democratic strength will be even greater due to having 62 - 64 Senate seats, a filibuster - proof majority.

If this is so, then I think Texas can save our Bill of Rights from a filibuster - proof Democratic Senate majority simply by dividing into 5 separate states, and going from having 2 federal senators to 10.

Unlike the Democrats near the beginning of Obama's term, the GOP does not have a filibuster - proof supermajority in the Senate - or anything close to one.

Democrats need to win both to get a filibuster - proof 60 - seat majority.

Two years from now, Dems will have a chance to negate the Chambliss win, either by unseating Chambliss's equally noisome colleague Johnny Isakson — an unlikely event considering the reactionary bent of Georgia voters — or picking up a couple more seats elsewhere for their filibuster - proof majority.

Taken as a whole those developments have Democrats increasingly optimistic about significantly widening their majority in 2008 — maybe even to a veto - proof filibuster - proof 60 seats.

I think too much is being made of the filibuster - proof majority.

The decision will be felt most immediately in the coming midterm elections, given that it comes just two days after Democrats lost a filibuster - proof majority in the Senate and as popular discontent over government bailouts and corporate bonuses continues to boil.

The test of garnering a filibuster - proof 60 - vote majority in the U.S. Senate for climate legislation has certainly led to plenty of teeth - gnashing.

«I don't believe there are enough days left to deal with this issue,» he said, with the main roadblocks being the tight schedule and the need for filibuster - proof 60 votes in the Senate put through the oil bill as a whole: «It's unfortunate, but 60 is 60.»

Democrats have a much better chance of hanging on to the Senate, but nothing close to a filibuster - proof majority is in the making.

It's now up to the Senate to move this bill forward, though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been quoted as saying that it's unclear whether or not the bill will achieve a filibuster - proof 60 votes.

Unable to enact cap - and - trade legislation, even when he was supported by filibuster - proof majorities in Congress, President Barack Obama famously claimed, «Cap and trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way.»

Sen. Robert Menendez's subsidies - killing bill, which recently garnered majority support but fail to reach a filibuster - proof 60 votes in the Senate, just targeted the five largest oil companies.

Congressional proposals in 2011 and 2012 drew a majority of Senators» support, but came only votes shy of reaching a filibuster - proof 60 votes.

It's hard for me to imagine a more filibuster - proof genuinely progressive nominee.

Putting aside the simple fact that a Democratic president might have a filibuster - proof Senate to help his or her cause, Rosen's short list reveals a remarkable lack of historical perspective.

With control of the House, a filibuster - proof Senate majority could empower President...