Sentences with phrase «filibustering bills»

The Republicans can bring proceedings to a halt by filibustering bills.

While Congress is in the hands of a Republican majority, getting Democrats to go along with cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans — as is Trump's plan — will be a tough sell; while the Republicans control the Senate, the Democratic minority could filibuster bills they don't like.

Certainly someone who filibustered the bill has thought through the answers but I'll be darned if I can find a single journalist who thought to ask these questions of the media's favorite politician this week.

The Senate Democrats are filibustering a bill to aid victims of sex trafficking, demanding that any help to victims of sex trafficking must be bundled with (extremely unpopular) government funding of abortion.

State Senator Wendy Davis, D - Fort Worth, who last month filibustered a bill to restrict abortion rights in Texas, is frequently mentioned as a potential Democratic contender.

Democrats, who could have filibustered the bill, declined to do so — a decision that had much to do with the proximity of the midterm elections, in the run - up to which, they feared, the President and his Republican allies might gain advantage by accusing them of «coddling terrorists.»

Not exact matches

A similar series of bills were voted down recently in the Senate, a vote that was only called after a long filibuster by Senator Chris Murphy.

But Wendy Davis's filibuster of Texas bill SB5 demonstrates valuable leadership lessons.

Afterward, Trump said he wants the power to issue line - item vetoes on spending bills — a power many presidents have demanded, and that Congress has never granted — and that the Senate should eliminate the ability of a minority to filibuster legislation.

That method allows Republicans to move the bill through the Senate with only a majority vote — avoiding a potential Democratic filibuster.

The process allows Republicans to avoid a Democratic filibuster and pass the bill on a party - line vote, but it comes with strings attached.

Republicans are using a process known as budget reconciliation to pass the bill without being subject to a Democratic filibuster.

Republicans and some Wall Street analysts warn that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations will lead to an even darker period of partisan acrimony, throwing into question the ability of Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past January and raise the debt limit in February.

Trump also reiterated his call for McConnell to send the filibuster in a tweet on Wednesday after the failure of the latest GOP healthcare bill, and in an interview with «Fox & Friends» host Pete Hegseth.

A bill must receive 60 votes to move past a filibuster.

Republicans are using what's called «budget reconciliation» to pass their health care bill with a bare majority of 50 votes and avoid a Democratic filibuster.

But the Senate is expected to draft a more moderate bill to try to draw Democrats needed to avoid a filibuster.

But they had one problem: They held only 52 seats in the Senate; under the usual legislative process, where a bill can be filibustered and held up if 41 senators oppose it, Democrats could block any repeal plan.

But we need not depend just on the Congress doing the right thing (I remain doubtful that this bill will survive a Democratic filibuster in the Senate).

Senate Finance Committee aides said they planned to make adjustments to the legislation because it probably does not comply with the rules for a special Senate procedure they hope to use to pass the bill with 50 votes, rather than the 60 votes typically needed to beat a filibuster.

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So, Democrats — including several Catholics, such as Senator Tim Kaine, who are «personally» though not professionally opposed to abortion — voted to filibuster the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Republican leaders who could have moved a bump stock ban bill to the floor after the Las Vegas massacre did not.

They never mention that in 2013 Democrats filibustered a bi-partisan bill I supported that made gun trafficking a federal crime

Of course the bill's doomed on the Senate floor, since Republicans would no doubt filibuster it out of existence, but that's not enough for the grandly - titled «Public Advocate of the United States,» one Eugene Delgaudio of Loudon County, Virginia.

The federal bill that will provide New York with some $ 2.6 billion in Medicaid and education aid just passed the US Senate 61 - 39 (no surprise, as that was the same as yesterday's cloture vote in which two moderate Maine Republicans joined with the Democrats to end the GOP filibuster).

Reconciliation is a specific process of passing a budget bill and, as a result can not be filibustered by the Senate.

Because of this limited debate, reconciliation bills are not subject to the filibuster in the Senate.

Also, I believe there is no filibuster available for tax and budget bills that go through the process called reconciliation with the House.

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.

The Conservative - backed EU referendum bill has completed its passage through the Commons, thwarting filibustering Labour backbenchers.

The most common form of filibuster occurs when a senator attempts to delay or block a vote on a bill by extending debate on the measure.

The most obvious mechanism, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will set out for the President - elect, will be a Reconciliation Bill by which, because such bills are exempt from filibuster provisions in the Senate, spending and revenue - raising decisions can be driven through not just the House but also the Senate on majority votes.

It opens up the possibility of filibustering MPs doing their utmost to delay the bill.

When the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, after four months of work, had delivered its bill to Parliament, the minority in Parliament used unprecedented filibuster against the bill for months.

Certain budget bills can go around the filibuster and only need 51 votes to pass.

Seven Republicans joined 54 Senate Democrats in the 61 - 30 vote to prevent any filibuster of the bill.

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.

Paterson predicted that New York will receive some $ 730 million worth of aid from the Medicaid / education bill the US Senate is expected to vote on this week after breaking a long - standing GOP filibuster with the help of two moderate Maine Republicans.

A 2014 vote on the bill received 55 yeas, not enough to break a filibuster.

He says it is unusual for a home secretary to be filibustering her own bill.

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.

Who is MP Philip Davies, why is he opposing the violence against women bill and when else has he filibustered?

Republicans must keep their plan's shortfall from spilling over that $ 1.5 trillion line or the measure will lose its protection against Democratic Senate filibusters, bill - killing delays that take 60 votes to overcome.

Budget bills are governed under a special rule process called «Reconciliation» that disallows filibusters.

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.

In the United States Senate, most filibusters fall into two categories: A large minority objects to a nomination or bill.

But private member's bills are vulnerable to a form of filibustering by MPs opposed to them - creating the possibility that a small number of opponents could prevent Moore's bill from becoming law.

Had the filibuster been stopped, the bill would have passed.

If the vote fails to reach the threshold, the bill is filibustered.

Labour «troublemakers», in particular, have outraged Lords ministers with their partisan tactics - including the filibustering of the parliamentary voting system and constituencies bill, which came close to derailing the government's plans for next month's electoral reform referendum.