Filibuster

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Alternet.org
View In: FilibusterFormer United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich released a new video on Tuesday excoriating the Senate for failing to abolish the filibuster, which he explained is the reason that Congress so frequently appears to get accomplish little to nothing.Most Senate Democrats support reforming or eliminatin...

scheerpost.com
View In: FilibusterLast Wednesday, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema voted against voting rights. Why?

The Guardian
View In: FilibusterThe so-called ‘world’s greatest deliberative body’ is deliberately and inherently undemocraticEnabled by Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, a united front of US Senate Republicans dealt American democracy a massive blow last week by blocking the Freedom to Vote: John R Lewis Act. Th...

The Guardian
View In: FilibusterThe two Democratic senators chose to wreck American democracy, simply to feed their sense of their own importance What can possibly explain Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s decision to sink voting rights protections? Why did they create a false narrative that the legislation had to be “bipartisan” whe...