Sentences with phrase «filibuster without»
How have the senate rules been changed to allow for a filibuster without continued debate?
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President Donald Trump once again took aim at the Senate filibuster, a procedural maneuver that can thwart legislation without at least 60 votes to end debate on the subject.
Republicans are using a process known as budget reconciliation to pass the bill without being subject to a Democratic filibuster.
In short, he was able to push through the confirmation of a number of federal judges with a simple majority without threat of filibuster.
Or has the Senate changed the rules without officially changing the written rules, like they did with judicial filibusters?
Gavin Barwell's mental health discrimination bill was waved through parliament's lower House without a vote this morning, after ministers, the opposition and even those who usually filibuster private member's bills gave it their blessing.
But even though Faso and Stefanik voted against their party on the tax bill, in October 2017 they voted in favor of a budget bill that paved the way for the tax measure to pass the Senate on GOP votes alone — without a filibuster.
As a result of the Democrat's filibuster over the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program, 60 votes were needed to pass the measure, making it impossible for Republicans to pass the continuing without at least some Democratic support.
Congress also uses modifications of straight Robert's Rules voting like the filibuster, holds, Senatorial privilege for judicial appointments, supermajority voting on treaties, «fast track voting» without amendments and similar variants.
Without the filibuster, it would have passed.
Passing a straight overhaul of the act without reconciliation remains unlikely, because the action could get mired by a Senate filibuster.
The budget is critical to this process because, for all the talk about bipartisanship, it would set up reconciliation procedures that would allow Republicans to pass their tax legislation without having to worry about a Democratic filibuster.
The last time the legislation was taken up, she said, it came two votes shy of cloture, which is a procedure that enables a bill to be considered on the Senate floor without the possibility of a filibuster.