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Jun 28, 2018 · However, when it came time to confirm Gorsuch in 2017, near-unified Democratic opposition and the GOP's own slim majority of 51 Republican senators made getting to a 60-vote supermajority...
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Jan 23, 2022 · The 60-vote threshold to overcome the filibuster and pass legislation in the Senate seems as immovable as ever. But that threshold is relatively new. It was established after an epic fight in...
In January 2021, following a shift to a 50–50 Democratic majority supported by Vice President Harris' tie-breaking vote, the legislative filibuster became a sticking point for the adoption of a new organizing resolution when Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, threatened to filibuster the resolution unless it included language ...
Mar 1, 2024 · McConnell alone did not create the “60-vote Senate” — the expectation that a Senate majority must always secure supermajority support to advance its policy agenda. But as Senate...
The Republican-controlled Senate voted 52-48 to reduce the vote threshold for confirming nominees to the Supreme Court from 60 to 51, per The New York Times. (The need for a 60-vote...
Mar 25, 2021 · The question of what to do about the filibuster — the once-arcane Senate rule that creates a de facto 60-vote threshold for major legislation — is arguably the most important topic in Washington,...
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Nov 16, 2021 · Senate Democrats removed the 60-vote filibuster for all presidential nominees except those to the U.S. Supreme Court. McConnell extended this rule to include Supreme Court appointees in 2017. The colloquial “nuclear option” is a method to change the Senate rules with only a simple majority in favor.
