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Schumer proposing talking filibuster amid voting rights standoff
Thehill ^ | 01/18/2022 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 01/18/2022 5:29:36 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Senate Democrats will force a vote this week to try to change the rules and enact a talking filibuster to pass voting rights legislation, getting rid of the 60-vote hurdle.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on Tuesday that Democrats will force a rules change vote once Republicans block a voting rights bill as soon as Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; chuckschumer; election2022; election2024; filibuster; jordaincarney; mediawingofthednc; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; schumer; standoff; thehill; theshill; voting
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Go for it Chuck
1 posted on 01/18/2022 5:29:36 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He knows that he’s on video espousing the sanctity of the filibuster, right?


2 posted on 01/18/2022 5:31:48 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What you guys can’t say anything?!

Even the guy who can’t think said something!


3 posted on 01/18/2022 5:35:48 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: The Antiyuppie

When debating this a Repub senator should simply play back a recording of Schumer’s defense of the filibuster.


4 posted on 01/18/2022 5:36:13 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: The Antiyuppie

“He knows that he’s on video espousing the sanctity of the filibuster, right?”

Read the article.


5 posted on 01/18/2022 5:37:01 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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Don’t worry, the filibuster will come right back if their voter fraud ever accidentally fails


6 posted on 01/18/2022 5:37:10 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“When debating this a Repub senator should simply play back a recording of Schumer’s defense of the filibuster.”

READ THE ARTICLE


7 posted on 01/18/2022 5:38:10 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: The Antiyuppie

That’s all right.

The bill isn’t really about voting right.

It’s about taking RCV nationwide.


8 posted on 01/18/2022 5:38:43 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Schumer and Democratic senators stressed that the talking filibuster would only apply to voting legislation, leaving the 60-vote hurdle in place for other issues.”

Is this guy really that juvenile? Sorry, if you can break the rule to get what you want, the republicans can too. (Yeah, I know, McConnell would never allow that to happen)


9 posted on 01/18/2022 5:40:31 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: TexasGator

YOU read the article.


10 posted on 01/18/2022 5:41:31 PM PST by Lazamataz (He who does, does not talk. He who talks, does not do.)
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To: Lazamataz

I accidentally read your post before I saw it was yours.


11 posted on 01/18/2022 5:43:05 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: mewzilla

It’s about forcing all states to allow Mail In Ballots, which remove ballots from the forensic controls of the normal ballot stream.

Almost no other nation in the world, China and Russia included, allows Mail In Ballots like the Democrats want.


12 posted on 01/18/2022 5:43:46 PM PST by Lazamataz (He who does, does not talk. He who talks, does not do.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then next time it will be another “just this once.”


13 posted on 01/18/2022 5:44:02 PM PST by Luke21
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To: TexasGator

You are such a fool.


14 posted on 01/18/2022 5:44:16 PM PST by Lazamataz (He who does, does not talk. He who talks, does not do.)
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To: Yogafist

“Is this guy really that juvenile? Sorry, if you can break the rule to get what you want,”

He is not breaking a rule.


15 posted on 01/18/2022 5:44:30 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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Go for it Chuck

Chuck also said he would force a vote on Build Back Bad, but backed down when some Democrats objected to recording a vote on a bill that didn't have enough votes. Same principle applies here.

16 posted on 01/18/2022 5:44:53 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Luke21
Then next time it will be another “just this once.”

They won't need to. If they manage to institutionalize nationwide voter fraud, there's no coming back from that.

If they succeed, this is the Go Sign we've been waiting for.

17 posted on 01/18/2022 5:45:27 PM PST by Lazamataz (He who does, does not talk. He who talks, does not do.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wouldn’t be surprised one bit that he could pull it off.


18 posted on 01/18/2022 5:46:00 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: cornfedcowboy

Before the 17th Amendment was ratified, Senators ACTUALLY represented the best interests of their own state instead of the interests of Washington D.C.


19 posted on 01/18/2022 5:50:52 PM PST by JJBookman (Repeal 17 )
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To: TexasGator

Tell us what the hell it said, I’m not going to the hill. Stop being a prick.


20 posted on 01/18/2022 5:54:00 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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