Sentences with phrase «vote filibuster»

And it would not be surprising to see Alexander capitalize on bipartisan interest in these ideas, which would be needed to reach the 60 - vote filibuster threshold (unless the Republican leadership end the filibuster or use the budget reconciliation process to avoid it).

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.

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.

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.

That means the Obama administration was given free rein to craft the agreement, which must be submitted to a straight up or down vote, with no possibility of amendment or filibuster.

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.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, whose state of Connecticut shouldered the killing of 20 children in Newtown in 2012, led a filibuster on Wednesday to try to force a vote, insisting he would stay on the Senate floor «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»

To pass the AHCA in the Senate, the Republicans need to deploy «reconciliation,» an expedited budget process that requires just 50 votes, instead of the 60 needed to prevent a filibuster.

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 need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

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

Scrapping the filibuster, known in political circles as the «nuclear option,» would require McConnell to wrangle a majority of senators to vote to suspend the rule.

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.

Democrats have 54 votes — six short of the number needed to shut down a 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.

On a classic episode of Parks and Rec, Patton Oswalt portrays a citizen of Pawnee who, in order to delay a city counsel vote, launches into an epic filibuster.

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.

The Senate Republicans didn't have the votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster.

That will give the Democrats enough votes to sustain a filibuster.

The measures were the subject of intense debate in the state and gained national attention after Sen. Wendy Davis staged a day - long filibuster in an attempt to block the vote.

This comes, of course, just one week after Senator Chris Murphy led a 15 - hour filibuster for a vote on gun control.

Fast - tracking, according to journalist Dave Johnson enables Congress to agree «to set aside its duties under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and vote on TPP within 90 days of it being signed, to severely limit discussion and debate, not to filibuster the agreement in the Senate and not to amend it not matter what problems turn up after the agreement is revealed».

So when the 50,000 - seat, $ 7.6 million stadium was completed in 1975, the Board of Regents filibustered, voting to delay naming the stadium until its debts were paid off.

Democrats will have some leverage because on important issues, they'll likely force Republicans to garner 60 votes to end filibusters.

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).

I will continue this filibuster as long as there are enough votes here to allow it to continue.

In recent years, the Senate has operated under a filibuster rule that 60 votes are needed to end debate and bring an issue to a vote.

A filibuster in the United States Senate is a dilatory or obstructive tactic used in the United States Senate to prevent a measure from being brought to a vote.

In the U.S. Senate, the filibuster allows a single senator to effectively block a vote by way of the senate rules that allow for unlimited debate, but now, the senate rules have somehow been modified so that to invoke filibuster you don't even need to actually have «debate» where you do silly things like read names from the telephone book to keep the debate going.

Nevertheless, under current Senate rules, a rule change could itself be filibustered, requiring two - thirds of senators who are present and voting to end debate.

But given that a vote for cloture, to end a filibuster, takes 60 votes, which would require Democratic / Independent support, what reason does the majority have for excitement?

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed the votes to bust a planned Democratic filibuster of Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, as a showdown neared that could change the Senate, and the court, for generations.

U.S. Senate Democrats appeared to secure the votes necessary to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, sending the body hurtling toward a bitter partisan confrontation later this week.

In the U.S. Senate, the filibuster allows a single senator to effectively block a vote by way of the senate rules that allow for unlimited debate, but now, the senate rules have somehow been modified...

Wikipedia says that the filibuster in the United States Senate is a Senate rule that allows a senator to talk as long as he does not give up the floor, unless a special vote is taken to stop debate.

There are numerous examples of the Senate being able to circumvent the rule directly that requires 60 votes to end a filibuster, and the threat to expand the nuclear option to other areas.

If there's no filibuster, then they don't have to take risky votes to uphold it.

On November 21, 2013, the Senate used the so - called «nuclear option», voting 52 - 48 — with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against — to eliminate the use of the filibuster on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees, except to the Supreme Court.

U.S. Senate Republicans deployed the so - called «nuclear option» and changed longstanding rules to clear the way for the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, bypassing a precedent - breaking Democratic filibuster by allowing the nomination to go forward on a simple majority vote.

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 GOP doesn't have the 60 votes in the Senate required to avoid a Democratic filibuster.

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.

U.S. Senate Republicans voted to end the filibuster of Supreme Court nominations, setting the stage for the rapid elevation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the high court and removing a pillar of the minority party's power to exert influence in the chamber.

Note that the Democrats forced a rule change in order to prevent a filibuster on certain kinds of votes

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.

In 2013 in response to the Republicans rejecting President Obama's nominees, Senate Democrats reduced the vote to halt a filibuster to confirmation of certain government positions to 50 votes.

It's also worth noting that it was not voted down but filibustered.

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.