fillibuster Archives - Common Sense Post https://commonsensepost.org/tag/fillibuster/ Blogging for Freedom Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:54:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/commonsensepost.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-flag.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 fillibuster Archives - Common Sense Post https://commonsensepost.org/tag/fillibuster/ 32 32 190734107 Tom Cotton Reads Schumer Speech Against Nuking Filibuster https://commonsensepost.org/tom-cotton-reads-schumer-speech-against-nuking-filibuster/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:53:59 +0000 https://commonsensepost.org/?p=8918 In a recent speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Tom Cotton (R, AR) gives a speech demanding an end of the Fillibuster rule. He then reveals that he was quoting the words of Senator Chuck Schumer verbatim.

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]]> 8918 Schumer Vows Vote On Changing Senate Rules If GOP Continues To Block Efforts https://commonsensepost.org/schumer-vows-vote-on-changing-senate-rules-if-gop-continues-to-block-efforts/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:54:53 +0000 https://commonsensepost.org/?p=8806 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed on Monday that he will push a vote on changing the Senate rules by January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, if Republicans continue to oppose his party’s voting rights bill.

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]]> 8806 Fillibuster Explained https://commonsensepost.org/fillibuster-explained/ https://commonsensepost.org/fillibuster-explained/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2022 14:40:50 +0000 https://commonsensepost.org/?p=8768 “A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a Constitutional Republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.” - Benjamin Franklin

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]]> https://commonsensepost.org/fillibuster-explained/feed/ 1 8768 Obama & the Dems: Filibuster for Me, But Not for Thee https://commonsensepost.org/obama-the-dems-filibuster-for-me-but-not-for-thee/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:30:15 +0000 https://commonsensepost.org/?p=1927 Puppet master Barack Obama has vigorously defended the Senate fillibuster. In fact as a senator, he voted two dozen times to filibuster bills he opposed. Sen. Barack Obama in 2005 vigorously defending the filibuster, which he now decries as a “Jim Crow relic:” pic.twitter.com/ha6OrW2vzK — Christian Schneider (@Schneider_CM) March 25, 2021 From Heritage.org, by Thomas […]

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