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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust one more gigantic reason to kill the filibuster....
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Repukes cannot govern so we must end the greatest challenge to our democracy, the Jim Crow filibuster...
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Just one more gigantic reason to kill the filibuster.... (Original Post)
pbmus
Mar 2021
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Problem is, even without the fillibuster, we have Dems who vote with the gun lobby...
Wounded Bear
Mar 2021
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Wounded Bear
(63,970 posts)1. Problem is, even without the fillibuster, we have Dems who vote with the gun lobby...
SoCalDavidS
(10,599 posts)2. "It's Unclear Whether Democrats Can Find 10 repubs To Sign On"
TEN?
THEY WON'T GET ONE!!!
And they probably won't even get Manchin.
America!!!
Shermann
(9,015 posts)3. Admittedly ignorant question about the filibuster here...
Why was it not used by the Republicans on the $1.9 trillion stimulus law? Did that fall under "budget reconciliation" which made it exempt from the filibuster?
lame54
(39,310 posts)4. It's finally the time to talk about it
