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Everyone had a grand old time mocking Sen. Joe Manchin III for claiming on Tuesday that we’ve had the filibuster for 232 years. This is historically false. What’s more, the West Virginia ...
manchin says he'll never change mind on filibuster "I'd make it harder to get rid of the filibuster, I'm supporting the filibuster, I'm going to continue to support the filibuster," Manchin said ...
Here Manchin reveals that to him, the filibuster’s affirmative value is that it is a “check” the minority can exercise to prevent the majority party from passing laws.
Congress gears up for a fight over the filibuster's future 11:46. Washington — Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who wields significant power in the party's narrow 50-seat majority in the ...
Sen. Joe Manchin avoided specifically answering whether he is for lowering the Senate's filibuster threshold to 55 on Thursday, after he seemed open to the possibility in comments that leaked from ...
If Manchin wants to honor Byrd's legacy, he should complete the legendary senator's mission for campaign finance reform and support revising the filibuster rule, greatly abused in recent years, to ...
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday defended his decision to vote against a sweeping voting rights bill and reiterated his opposition to gutting the filibuster, declaring in the strongest terms ...
Manchin’s support for the filibuster isn’t new, but it comes after Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed after a closed-door caucus meeting this week that he would try to change the ...
Manchin has previously indicated that any rules changes should be done on a bipartisan basis, meaning that he would be opposed to nuking the filibuster along party lines to pass voting legislation.
Manchin and fellow centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., vowed earlier this year that they would oppose any efforts to eliminate the filibuster. But Manchin softened his stance earlier this month ...
Cameron Peters is a Washington-based editor and writer and staff editor at Vox. On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a longtime defender of the filibuster, signaled that he might nevertheless be ...
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema say they will not vote to eliminate the filibuster under any circumstances. But for the Democratic leadership, the stakes of passing Joe Biden’s agenda are too ...