Filibuster

Last week, President Obama asked the Senate to change its filibuster rules. Filibusters aren’t in the Constitution, but they are constitutional. Both parties’ senators use them to prevent a vote on a bill. That’s why Congress can’t get anything done.

Can just a few rule changes in the Senate begin to untangle years of gridlock and partisan divide?

The House has voted to repeal the health care reform law, also known as Obamacare, by a vote of 245 to 189, with only three Democrats joining the entire Republican caucus in favor. As Churchill once said, it is but the end of the beginning.

Democrats want to change the Filibuster rules to get the old fashioned talk till you drop action in place. Mainly'˜cause they know that most politicians are out of shape and would not be able to flap their jaw that long without falling asleep.

Over the last 2 years Republicans have obstructed the democratic functioning of the Senate by putting an inordinate amount of holds on President Obama's nominees for judges and other offices.

With Sanders' filibuster transmitted via C-SPAN and Twitter, this political method will shape the conversation about what policy should look like in the future.

If Democrats had used the filibuster to the obscene intent that the Republicans used it over the last two years Republicans would have exercised their right to change it as soon as possible.

Bernie Sanders voiced his opposition to the wealthy getting tax cuts on the floor of the Senate for over eight hours.

Learn how to define filibuster. Then read a fun filibuster poem.

Senator Bernie Sanders' filibuster held the floor of the Senate for eight and one half hours as he spoke out against the deal that President Obama cut with the Republicans

Two Democrats joined every Republican in voting against the measure that would have repealed a 17-year-old military policy.

Is the Upper Chamber of Congress Responsible for His Woes?

The U.S. Senate should be going ahead with a vote Tuesday which many hope will result in passage of 2010 unemployment extension bill, H.R. 4213. Could unemployment benefits be extended until Nov. 30 as millions anticipate?

In the hardest language offered by President Obama in weeks regarding passage of unemployment extensions, the President zeroed in on what he calls obstructionist measures used by Senate Republicans to filibuster recovery.

Washington Independent: The new West Virginia Senator Carte Goodwin, due to be sworn in Tuesday July 20 at 2:15 pm, will vote for the unemployment extension bill. Hopefully workers will receive back payments.

A website contact list of Senators not supporting passage of non-funded unemployment extensions. Implore these Senators to pass unemployment extensions for the good of the unemployed, their families, their communities, their states, and the country!

Filibuster and cloture rules in the Senate are unconstitutional by nature and should be eliminated. The will of the people is evidenced in the outcomes of the voting process and filibuster/cloture rules circumvent their voice from being heard.

It has come down to this one question: Will Congress pass legislation that will grant extension to the discontinued unemployment benefits of hundreds of thousands before or after the July 4 Congressional recess?

Robert Byrd's death will not change the balance of power in the United States Senate as the governor of West Virginia is a Democrat and will appoint a Democrat as his successor

On June 22, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced Senate bill S.3520 (the Unemployment Insurance Extension Act bill), which presented a standalone measure that would extend unemployment benefits from June 2 onward to year's end.