Chuck Schumer Urged to End Filibuster in Letter From 62 Groups Including Unions, Greenpeace
A progressive coalition urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to quickly push for the end of the Senate's filibuster to end congressional "gridlock and dysfunction" on Friday.
A coalition of 62 organizations, including advocacy groups like Greenpeace and labor unions, insisted that the rule change would "restore a functioning Senate" in a letter addressed to Schumer. Progressive calls to eliminate the filibuster have been mounting amid concerns that Republicans in the Senate could obstruct attempts to pass Democratic legislation under the current rules, despite Democrats recently taking control of both Congress and the White House.
"The filibuster was never intended to be used and abused the way it has been over the past decade," the groups wrote to Schumer. "Despite what some will claim, the filibuster isn't in the Constitution. The framers were explicitly trying to avoid supermajority requirements for legislation, and until recently, the filibuster was only very rarely used to block ordinary legislation supported by the majority of senators."
"We urge Senate Democrats, under your leadership, to take speedy action to fix the broken Senate and make progress possible by changing the rules to end the gridlock and dysfunction," the letter continued. "The best way to restore a functioning Senate is to eliminate the filibuster as a weapon the minority can use to block an agenda that a majority of Americans have just embraced at the ballot box."
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