Democrats come up short in effort to change Senate rules to overcome GOP opposition on voting rights
Ten Republicans would have to join the 50 Democratic senators to advance their voting rights bills. But, all 50 GOP members stood in opposition.
Ten Republicans would have to join the 50 Democratic senators to advance their voting rights bills. But, all 50 GOP members stood in opposition.
As a Senate institutionalist, a champion of its role and traditions, Robert Byrd saw presidents and majority parties steamrolling the views of the minority.
Seemingly arcane exercises in the days and weeks ahead will in fact represent โ and may even resolve โ real conflicts over national issues of enormous importance.
The early ambitions of Joe Biden’s presidency are quickly running into the guardrails of archaic Senate rules, testing his willingness to remake an institution he reveres to fulfill many of the promises he has made to Americans.
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