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If the filibuster gets in the way, it's like voting rights — we should require an exception to the filibuster for this action. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If you just say' Well, vote,' and you don't explain any of the other stuff, people are going to be furious because they have voted, we have not done a good job in my mind as Democrats, as a country of actually explaining the structural problem with the Senate and the filibuster and if you don't do that, it's to the Republicans' benefit because they can do exactly what they've been doing, which is hold up everything and then blame Democrats. – Pramila Jayapal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They want to nuke the filibuster. Fifty-one votes to make a decision that could ultimately be to pack the courts. This is their stated goal, the only thing that … Supreme Court has its integrity … and the trust that [ Americans ] put into it. – Thom Tillis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the question is, do people really care about the filibuster ? I think the answer is probably no, but what people care about is solutions. People care about a government that addresses our problems. And unfortunately, we have a government unwilling to work together. – New York	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you look at why we can't do it, it's because of the filibuster. – Sarah Godlewski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What we're actually talking about is clearing the path for legislation that's going to support the needs of working people throughout our country, and the filibuster is a roadblock to doing that. – Morgan Harper	Found on CNN 2 years ago
So if he wants to -- I gather he no longer believes in the filibuster – if he wants to get right on that and wants to make amends for his opposition to her historic nomination, he should nominate her. And I think that would be very unifying. – Rogers Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s CYA [cover your a--] week in Washington, the Senate is taking a guaranteed-to-fail vote on blowing up the filibuster so that Chuck Schumer can ward off a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and so that Ron Klain can throw some chum at the Democratic Party’s progressive base. – Ben Sasse	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think that he would view it as a lazy man's filibuster, if he was going to filibuster something -- he truly believed that, that there was a side of the story that was not reaching the people and he would want to be on the floor, making those points. – Tom Coker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s CYA [ cover your a -- ] week in Washington, the Senate is taking a guaranteed-to-fail vote on blowing up the filibuster so that [ Majority Leader ] Chuck Schumer can ward off a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and so that Ron Klain can throw some chum at the Democratic Party’s progressive base. – Ben Sasse	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The majority of my colleagues in the Democrat caucus, they changed. They change their minds, i respect that. You have a right to change your mind. I haven't. I hope they respect that too. I've never changed my mind on the filibuster. – Joe Manchin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our proposal for a talking filibuster on these pieces of legislation would be the first step towards passing voting rights, restoring this body and breaking the gridlock that we now face on this vital issue. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those are the points I have been making for an awful long time, we need changes to make the Senate work better. Not (by) getting rid of the filibuster. – Joe Manchin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We find some real issues trying to figure out why it is that when we decided to support his bill, he seems to be supporting a filibuster of his own bill, that, to us, is very disconcerting. – Jim Clyburn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As the voting rights bill finally comes to the floor of the Senate, there is only one vote which will really matter, will 50 Democrats vote to override the filibuster, protect American democracy and pass the bill, or will Manchin and Sinema vote with the GOP and let the bill die? – Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Not a single state requires a 60 % threshold for passing legislation, for all the Republicans who say we ought to keep the filibuster, should we also do that in the state senates ? Well, maybe the Texas voting law should have required a 60 % threshold ? Maybe the Georgia law should have required a 60 % threshold ? – Lee Drutman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I can't speak for my colleagues. But I certainly am committed to keeping the legislative filibuster in place, and I think most Republicans are, i'll give you a good example of that. President Trump repeatedly called upon the Republican Senate to do away with the filibuster, because he was frustrated that his complete agenda was not getting enacted and the process was slow. – Susan Collins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When Trump was in the White House… and made repeated pleas to the Republican Senate to try and get rid of the filibuster, we resisted that. The reason we did is because we knew someday we would be in the minority. – John Thune	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As such, and as I have said many times before, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster. – Joe Manchin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You could not invent a better advertisement for the legislative filibuster than what we've just seen, a President abandoning rational persuasion for pure, pure, demagoguery, a president shouting that 52 senators and millions of Americans are racist unless he gets whatever he wants is proving exactly why the framers built the Senate to check his power. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There’s been a lot of really heated rhetoric that, I think, has been designed to distract from what is really going on in state election reform and to build pressure to get rid of the filibuster, fundamentally change the way the Senate operates, that’s what this speech is going to be about. That’s what this entire week is going to be about, in a lot of respect. – Jason Snead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are ways to be able to do this, and even they have said that in the past we cannot end the legislative filibuster. – James Lankford	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We spent all 2021 really fighting for federal voting rights legislation. Over 20,000 people took( advocacy) action with us( last year), and we knew going throughout this year, and seeing that Congress was not acting, and that the filibuster was getting in the way, we realized that we really had to take matters into our own hands, we know at the end of the day, we're not going to be able to out-organize when it comes to fixing our voting system and modernizing it, and replacing the federal legislation, and that's why it's twofold. – Stephanie Young	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Let us go no further down this road, i hope the Republican Leader and I can, in the coming months, find a way to build a firewall around the legislative filibuster, which is the most important distinction between the Senate and the House. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

If the filibuster gets in the way, it's like voting rights — we should require an exception to the filibuster for this action.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you just say' Well, vote,' and you don't explain any of the other stuff, people are going to be furious because they have voted, we have not done a good job in my mind as Democrats, as a country of actually explaining the structural problem with the Senate and the filibuster and if you don't do that, it's to the Republicans' benefit because they can do exactly what they've been doing, which is hold up everything and then blame Democrats.

– Pramila Jayapal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They want to nuke the filibuster. Fifty-one votes to make a decision that could ultimately be to pack the courts. This is their stated goal, the only thing that … Supreme Court has its integrity … and the trust that [ Americans ] put into it.

– Thom Tillis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the question is, do people really care about the filibuster ? I think the answer is probably no, but what people care about is solutions. People care about a government that addresses our problems. And unfortunately, we have a government unwilling to work together.

– New York

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you look at why we can't do it, it's because of the filibuster.

– Sarah Godlewski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What we're actually talking about is clearing the path for legislation that's going to support the needs of working people throughout our country, and the filibuster is a roadblock to doing that.

– Morgan Harper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So if he wants to -- I gather he no longer believes in the filibuster – if he wants to get right on that and wants to make amends for his opposition to her historic nomination, he should nominate her. And I think that would be very unifying.

– Rogers Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s CYA [cover your a--] week in Washington, the Senate is taking a guaranteed-to-fail vote on blowing up the filibuster so that Chuck Schumer can ward off a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and so that Ron Klain can throw some chum at the Democratic Party’s progressive base.

– Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that he would view it as a lazy man's filibuster, if he was going to filibuster something -- he truly believed that, that there was a side of the story that was not reaching the people and he would want to be on the floor, making those points.

– Tom Coker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s CYA [ cover your a -- ] week in Washington, the Senate is taking a guaranteed-to-fail vote on blowing up the filibuster so that [ Majority Leader ] Chuck Schumer can ward off a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and so that Ron Klain can throw some chum at the Democratic Party’s progressive base.

– Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The majority of my colleagues in the Democrat caucus, they changed. They change their minds, i respect that. You have a right to change your mind. I haven't. I hope they respect that too. I've never changed my mind on the filibuster.

– Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our proposal for a talking filibuster on these pieces of legislation would be the first step towards passing voting rights, restoring this body and breaking the gridlock that we now face on this vital issue.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those are the points I have been making for an awful long time, we need changes to make the Senate work better. Not (by) getting rid of the filibuster.

– Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We find some real issues trying to figure out why it is that when we decided to support his bill, he seems to be supporting a filibuster of his own bill, that, to us, is very disconcerting.

– Jim Clyburn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the voting rights bill finally comes to the floor of the Senate, there is only one vote which will really matter, will 50 Democrats vote to override the filibuster, protect American democracy and pass the bill, or will Manchin and Sinema vote with the GOP and let the bill die?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Not a single state requires a 60 % threshold for passing legislation, for all the Republicans who say we ought to keep the filibuster, should we also do that in the state senates ? Well, maybe the Texas voting law should have required a 60 % threshold ? Maybe the Georgia law should have required a 60 % threshold ?

– Lee Drutman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can't speak for my colleagues. But I certainly am committed to keeping the legislative filibuster in place, and I think most Republicans are, i'll give you a good example of that. President Trump repeatedly called upon the Republican Senate to do away with the filibuster, because he was frustrated that his complete agenda was not getting enacted and the process was slow.

– Susan Collins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When Trump was in the White House… and made repeated pleas to the Republican Senate to try and get rid of the filibuster, we resisted that. The reason we did is because we knew someday we would be in the minority.

– John Thune

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As such, and as I have said many times before, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.

– Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You could not invent a better advertisement for the legislative filibuster than what we've just seen, a President abandoning rational persuasion for pure, pure, demagoguery, a president shouting that 52 senators and millions of Americans are racist unless he gets whatever he wants is proving exactly why the framers built the Senate to check his power.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s been a lot of really heated rhetoric that, I think, has been designed to distract from what is really going on in state election reform and to build pressure to get rid of the filibuster, fundamentally change the way the Senate operates, that’s what this speech is going to be about. That’s what this entire week is going to be about, in a lot of respect.

– Jason Snead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are ways to be able to do this, and even they have said that in the past we cannot end the legislative filibuster.

– James Lankford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We spent all 2021 really fighting for federal voting rights legislation. Over 20,000 people took( advocacy) action with us( last year), and we knew going throughout this year, and seeing that Congress was not acting, and that the filibuster was getting in the way, we realized that we really had to take matters into our own hands, we know at the end of the day, we're not going to be able to out-organize when it comes to fixing our voting system and modernizing it, and replacing the federal legislation, and that's why it's twofold.

– Stephanie Young

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let us go no further down this road, i hope the Republican Leader and I can, in the coming months, find a way to build a firewall around the legislative filibuster, which is the most important distinction between the Senate and the House.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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