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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchumer Tells Republicans He'll Keep the Filibuster
June 28, 2018 at 8:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
According to a senior GOP senator who spoke on condition of anonymity, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (R-NY) has privately reassured Republican senators in recent weeks that he would not change the rules and is committed to keeping the filibuster, Politico reports.
Jonathan Chait: What this means is that the decision to bottle up the agenda of the next Democratic president is being made right now, in private, in a secret deal between Schumer and Senate Republicans.
Schumer is surely not alone among Democrats in his fondness for retaining the Senates antiquated supermajority requirement But Democrats are deluding themselves if they think that, during the next Democratic administration, they can keep it in place without provoking mass indignation from their base. The filibuster has already been pared back twice in the last five years. Everybody knows the rules can be changed.
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https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/28/schumer-tells-republicans-hell-keep-the-filibuster/
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Schumer Tells Republicans He'll Keep the Filibuster (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2018
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Freethinker65
(10,061 posts)1. And he would, IF he was ever in the position to lead the Senate again.
There are no guarantees of that.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)2. Exactly
rickford66
(5,528 posts)3. "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (R-NY)" ??
Did FOX write this ?
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)4. The Filibuster is working to ur advantage now
Trump wants to do away with it.