in the history of the united states senate who has gotten everything that he or she wants, not ever. senator sinema did not give a single example of a bill being passed with less than 60 votes that was then repealed when there is a change in power in congress and the white house. not a single example of her fear, of her theoretical justification for a voting threshold in the senate that was not yet provided for in the constitution, and which defies dock moxie in a defies democracy. if we were to give into that moment of wanting exactly what you want, the reversal that would come in a year or two years would not only be bad for the american body, it would be bad for businesses, bad for state and local governments. well, maybe that is why it doesn t happen. except, of course, for tax
single example of a bill being passed with less than 60 votes that was then repealed when there is a change in power in congress and the white house. not a single example of her fear, of her theoretical justification for a voting threshold in the senate that was not yet provided for in the constitution, and which defies dock moxie in a defies democracy. if we were to give into that moment of wanting exactly what you want, the reversal that would come in a year or two years would not only be bad for the american body, it would be bad for businesses, bad for state and local governments. well, maybe that is why it doesn t happen. except, of course, for tax rates. whenever republicans control congress and the white house, they cut tax rates, and whenever democrats regain
this with a majority vote. they can pass it with 50 democratic votes. i feel like the coverage of that is often sort of black and white. light switch on and off, you re either gonna have the filibuster or not. it does seem like if this is gonna happen the more likely outcome is kind of more of a dimmer switch and then an on and off light switch. they could find a way to strengthen the filibuster or reform the filibuster or alter the filibuster or have some sort of carved out for the filibuster. in a way that they ve done on nominations, judicial nominations and other things in the past, specifically to protect voting rights. do you think that is the way that this will likely go if it does go forward? but they ll find a narrow path to doing this? i think that s exactly right. they re going to debate how to input the strength of the filibuster in order to have this vote and i think there s a lot of ways to skin this cat, rachel. we ve seen proposals to lower the voting threshold from 6
do you think that is the way this will likely go if it does go forward, that they ll find a narrower path to doing this? i think that s exactly right. they re going to debate how they can quote/unquote strengthen the filibuster in order to have this quote. i think there are a lot of ways to skin this cat, rachel. we ve seen proposals to lower the voting threshold from 60 down to 55 down to 50. we ve seen proposals to allow vouchers for democracy bills. there are a lot of ways you can make amendments. it s really not black or white right now. but ultimately the guide for whether or not this reform to the filibuster will work is does the majority does the senate majority have the ability to call an up-or-down vote on a piece of legislation, or does mitch mcconnell and the senate minority have the ability to straight up veto as they re going to do tomorrow, or do they have the ability to delay for months and months and months? so the senate with just the 50 democratic votes has the ab
do you think that is the way this will likely go if it does go forward, that they ll find a narrower path to doing this? i think that s exactly right. they re going to debate how they can quote/unquote strengthen the filibuster in order to have this quote. i think there are a lot of ways to skin this cat, rachel. we ve seen proposals to lower the voting threshold from 60 down to 55 down to 50. we ve seen proposals to allow vouchers for democracy bills. there are a lot of ways you can make amendments. it s not black or white right now. but ultimately the guide for whether or not this reform to the filibuster will work is does the majority does the senate majority have the ability to call an up or down vote on a piece of legislation or does mitch mcconnell and the senate minority have the ability to straight up veto as they re going to do tomorrow or do they have the ability to delay for months and months and months? so the senate with just the 50 democratic votes has the ability to