filibuster

Democrats’ filibuster flip-flop
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 25, 2025
Democrats were against the filibuster before they were for it. The left continues to rage against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for casting a v...
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Now they love Senate filibuster
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 13, 2024
News outlets called the last outstanding U.S. Senate race this week for Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona. That gives Republicans a 53-47 edge in the ...
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Midterms, Biden’s agenda and the filibuster
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Nov 02, 2022
On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room. The ...
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Dems’ filibuster scheme
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Sep 14, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pre-taped interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last weekend. As is often the case with her interviews, Harri...
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Restore filibuster requirements
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 14, 2022
Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...
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The great Democratic panic
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Sep 23, 2021
President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer have based the future of the entire Democratic agenda on a ...
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The radical Biden blowout is just beginning
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 11, 2021
A trillion dollars used to be a lot of money, even in Washington. Now, a trillion-dollar spending bill is a trifle barely worth arguing over and the s...
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The smear campaign against Joe Manchin
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 09, 2021
Joe Manchin is being pilloried for the offense of being consistent on the filibuster. Back in 2017, when Senate Democrats were desperate to stop Donal...
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In Texas, Democrats thwart will of majority
Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Jun 04, 2021
Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia, some Democrats — like President Joe Biden — ...
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The Texas voting lie
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 03, 2021
The Democratic opposition to legislative minorities using whatever leverage they have to block legislation is highly situational. In Washington, D.C.,...
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The essence of the filibuster
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 16, 2021
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, our Democratic neighbor from West Virginia, has it right: The filibuster should not be eliminated. The Senate needs the filibus...
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The dollar sign president
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 03, 2021
So far, the defining word of the Biden era is “trillion.” The Joe Biden who portrayed himself as a moderate, old-school, bipartisan dealmaker during t...
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Dems’ filibuster hypocrisy
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Mar 25, 2021
On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting th...
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Democrats would regret nuking the filibuster
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 23, 2021
There’s nothing that ails Joe Biden’s agenda, we are supposed to believe, that ending the filibuster wouldn’t fix. President Joe Biden showed a little...
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Total clarity about the election
Opinion, Сolumns
FRANCIS WILKINSON 
Oct 28, 2020
The past few days have offered the most clarifying hours of American politics since the night of Nov. 8, 2016. Four years ago, President Donald Trump’...
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