Insight Nebraska Legislature as reality TV, featuring filibuster and culture war drama Posted onJune 10, 2023 Legislative debates can be stuffy 2637470
Insight Nebraska Republicans approve combined gender-affirming care ban and anti-abortion bill after epic filibuster Posted onMay 17, 2023 Hundreds of people protested legislation targeting trans youth and abortion rights 6205233
Insight Sen Kyrsten Sinema defends filibuster as she trolls Democrats at Mitch McConnell event Posted onSeptember 26, 2022 ‘The best thing you can do for your child is not give them everything they want,’ the Arizona senator says 7439223
Insight Democrats press for talking filibuster for voting rights – with or without Manchin and Sinema Posted onJanuary 19, 2022 ‘I just don’t know how you break a rule to make a rule,’ says West Virginia senator 6993592
Insight Trump complains about Democratic push to end filibuster four years after calling for Republicans to do it Posted onJanuary 16, 2022 Mr Trump is now a fan of the senate’s supermajority requirement but once demanded that Republicans ditch it to move his agenda through Congress 6972507
Insight Sinema says no to filibuster reform scuttling Democrats’ voting rights hopes Posted onJanuary 14, 2022 Arizona senator says she will not support filibuster changes Sinema’s floor speech condemned by voting rights activists Joe Biden was in crisis talks with Senate … 8576612
Insight Joe Manchin praises Kyrsten Sinema’s refusal to tweak filibuster as voting rights bill stymied Posted onJanuary 13, 2022 Exclusive: Joe Manchin, a key moderate vote for President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, calls Kyrsten Sinema’s speech ‘excellent’ 9702902
Insight Biden calls for filibuster reform to ‘protect our democracy’ in fiery Georgia speech Posted onJanuary 11, 2022 President Joe Biden called for the Senate to change the filibuster to pass voting rights in a fiery speech in Georgia. 1931768
Insight Why Biden’s voting speech will be admirable but empty without Manchin and Sinema agreeing to change filibuster Posted onJanuary 11, 2022 Biden can’t really do much without either of them supporting changes to the filibuster – and they don’t seem to be moving 10143747
Insight Joe Biden to back filibuster rule change to push voting rights bill Posted onJanuary 11, 2022 US president to throw support behind plan to change rules that allow minority of senators to kill proposed laws Joe Biden plans to use a … 8732635
Insight Schumer tells Senate that Democrats will take up voting rights, consider filibuster change Posted onJanuary 3, 2022 Move will put greatest pressure yet on Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema 4539543
Insight Schumer: Senate to vote on filibuster change on voting bill Posted onJanuary 3, 2022 Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote on filibuster rules changes to advance stalled voting rights legislation 9667138