Back in 2022, then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took up consideration of a measure in 2022 to shift to a watered-down “talking filibuster” on two pieces of voting rights legislation. That move was widely seen as the opening salvo in efforts to defang the filibuster broadly.
Senate Dems prepare to filibuster GOP plan to avert govt shutdown — despite trying to defang tactic under Biden
Politics
March 13, 2025
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