From abolishing the Senate filibuster to packing the court, Democrats have proposed a wide array of actions that would lay waste to the American political landscape. Fast-forward to the dawn of ...
Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, and I were enjoying dinner at Washington’s Jefferson Hotel the evening Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, “nuked” the filibuster.
Now the filibuster is used regularly and often means the end of legislation, not the start of bipartisan cooperation. "In the 1960s, those racist filibusters standing against civil rights and voting ...
and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) signaling support for the filibuster as a means to block President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming agenda. “I’d be lying if I said we’d be in a better ...