Sentences with phrase «filibustering legislation»

[11] Southern Democrat senators had spent days filibustering legislation to end poll taxes, just days after midterm elections had resulted in the loss of nine seats.

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.

Democrats can filibuster any legislation that goes through the normal Senate process, since Republicans only control 52 seats.

Most EPA rules have a layer of insulation from Congressional meddling as long as Senate Democrats retain the ability to filibuster legislation that would repeal bedrock environmental laws like the Clean Air Act.

Not exact matches

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.

Many in Washington now assume that as soon as Republicans get control of the Senate they will get rid of the filibuster on legislation, possibly easing the way to repeal of Obamacare and maybe even the Dodd - Frank financial reform law.

To get legislation through the Senate, Republicans would need the support of at least eight Democrats to break an expected filibuster.

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.

Instead of changing the debate (the role that originally brought him to prominence), he has been trying to craft legislation that can pass the Senate while avoiding the filibuster rule.

Despite her famous 13 - hour filibuster last year against new abortion legislation in Texas, Sen. Wendy Davis says she actually supports a 20 - week ban on abortion.

It appears to me that for budget purposes, the «reconciliation» process could be used by Senate leadership to pass legislation providing funding, circumventing the anticipated Democratic filibuster to block such legislation.

After a series of filibusters in the 1960s over civil rights legislation, the Senate put a «two - track system» into place in the early 1970s under the leadership of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Majority Whip Robert Byrd.

So I think Dems would be ok to filibuster unimportant politically pieces of legislation or something a GOP Senator wanted that wasn't necessarily on Trump's plan.

Booker joined Murphy last summer during a high - profile filibuster over Republicans» unwillingness to hold votes in the Senate on gun control legislation.

For the most part that won't involve either battle royale or deal - cutting with Obama; it will involve putting up legislation that Senate Democrats filibuster.

Club President Tony Hoffmann reviewed the points made in the letter to Sen Reid regarding his recent reform of Senate Filibusters and the Resolution for Sen. Gillibrand favoring her approach in legislation protecting women military personnel who have been sexually assaulted.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy waged a filibuster in an attempt to force a vote on gun control legislation three days after 49 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Trump has called for ending the filibuster in the Senate in order to speed up legislation like health care and tax code reform — a call that's being rejected by Senate Republicans.

A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an Orlando club.

After a nearly 15 - hour filibuster, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday morning that lawmakers would hold a vote on expanding gun control legislation after the nation's deadliest mass shooting.

And amid a frosty period in his relationship with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, Mr. Trump questioned the Senate leader's approach, faulting Republicans for failing to blow up longstanding Senate rules that make most legislation subject to a filibuster that requires 60 votes to overcome.

But he pointed hopefully to the power of the 48 - member Senate Democratic Caucus headed by Sen. Charles Schumer, who have enough votes under the current rules to filibuster most Republican legislation.

Prior to 1988, the last time the procedure had been used was during a 1942 filibuster over civil rights legislation.

In this respect I believe that the Brits have a leg up on America, where politicians are so concerned with undermining the opposing party, with filibustering, and blocking legislation at every turn, that debate on actual issues seems to be a foreign concept.

Joining the protest was Sen. Chris Murphy, D - Conn., who had waged a nearly 15 - hour filibuster last week to force votes in the Senate on gun legislation.

(CNN)-- A key player in negotiations over potential gun control legislation said on Tuesday a planned GOP filibuster of the bill won't occur if Democrats allow Republicans to bring amendments up for a vote.

A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an...

Republicans reign in both wings of the Capitol, although Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer «s 48 - member Democratic caucus has enough votes filibuster most legislation under current Senate rules.

Senate Democrats also would have the filibuster in order to block legislation, which means that there would not likely be any efforts to get rid of the filibuster.

Until now the twin shields of Pres. Barack Obama's veto power and the threat of filibuster — a Senate procedural tool that allows senators to slow or stall legislation — have helped prevent Republicans from repealing Obamacare.

Of course, under the Senate's arcane rules about a member's right to filibuster any pending legislation, that still means getting 60 votes.

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.

Although Republican senators threatened a filibuster to keep the Senate from discussing the school building security measure — part of proposed legislation that deals largely with the higher - profile issue of gun control — compromises reached behind the scenes nudged the legislation onto the chamber's floor by the end of the week.

Opponents of the U.S. Senate tradition of the filibuster — or the extensive debate on the floor of the federal upper house geared toward preventing a vote on legislation or confirming a presidential appointee — certainly don't welcome Sen. Rand Paul's move today to exercise that privilege to prevent what would certainly be the speedy confirmation of John Brennan as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The default rate is high, and legislation that would have allowed students to negotiate a lower interest rate, the way people do with mortgages, was blocked in the U.S. Senate by a Republican filibuster.

Republicans mounted a filibuster and prevented any real debate on the issues surrounding the bill that might have at least helped in the next round of attempts at climate legislation.

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.»

Virtually absent was talk about Senate obstructionism, the inane and perpetual use of the filibuster, and the possibility of passing legislation through reconciliation, issues that David Roberts has covered at length (and with good reason).

The Senate voted down the bill by a narrow vote of 59 to 41, needing one more vote to break a filibuster and send the legislation to the President's desk.

While the legislation didn't face much resistance in the House, it's likely to face more of a challenge in the Senate, where the bill's high - profile detractors, including Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, have already pledged a bipartisan filibuster effort.

All it takes to pass legislation in the House is a simple majority, but in the Senate it requires 60 votes to shut off a 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.