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When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass legislation.
The debate was sparked when Majority Leader Bill Frist (Republican of Tennessee) threatened its use to end Democratic-led filibusters of judicial nominees submitted by President George W. Bush. In response to this threat, Democrats threatened to shut down the Senate and prevent consideration of all routine and legislative Senate business.
The Gang of 14 was a bipartisan group of Senators in the 109th United States Congress who successfully, at the time, negotiated a compromise in the spring of 2005 to avoid the deployment of the so-called "nuclear option" by Senate Republican Majority over an organized use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats.
After a series of filibusters in the 1960s over civil-rights legislation, the Senate began to use a two-track system introduced in 1972 under the leadership of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Majority Whip Robert Byrd. Before this system was introduced, a filibuster would stop the Senate from moving on to any other legislative activity.
Once again, Senate Democrats in the minority used the filibuster to force the Senate Republican majority to include some of their priorities in the final bill, which ultimately passed 96-0.
Senate Republicans on Thursday crushed a Democratic blockade of Trump's Supreme Court nominee, approving a rule change allowing for Gorsuch's confirmation. GOP 'goes nuclear,' ends Democratic ...
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Most Republicans oppose the bill, which would establish a commission to investigate the attack by Donald Trump supporters over the election. GOP set to block 1/6 panel, stoking Senate filibuster fight