Today, Fix Our Senate released the following statement from spokesman Eli Zupnick in advance of tomorrow’s expected filibuster of a vote to begin debate on voting rights, campaign finance, and ethics legislation.
Below are five points from Fix Our Senate to keep in mind in advance of tomorrow’s critical Senate vote to begin debate on voting rights legislation.
In case you missed it, a new story by Steven Allen Adams published in Ogden Newspapers, a local group of West Virginia media outlets, features new polling commissioned by Fix Our Senate.
Today, Fix Our Senate released a comprehensive report, “A Lethal Weapon: The Filibuster as an Obstacle to Gun Violence Prevention,” which exclusively ran in The Trace’s Daily Bulletin this morning.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) today told radio host Hugh Hewitt that, should Republicans retake control of the U.S. Senate, it will be “highly unlikely” he would allow President Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024.
Today, in the The Washington Post, Senator Jacky Rosen from Nevada expressed support for eliminating the filibuster to protect democracy and voting rights.
A poll commissioned by Fix Our Senate and conducted by Global Strategy Group found that 43% of registered voters in West Virginia see the filibuster as a way to create more gridlock.
Unless Democrats take steps to reform or eliminate the filibuster, McConnell can use this obstructionist weapon to block the For the People Act
President Biden’s legislative ambitions face a crucial test in the narrowly divided Congress this month, with key Democratic senators signaling they want to pump the brakes.
Once obscure, the Senate filibuster is coming under fresh scrutiny not only because of the enormous power it gives a single senator to halt President Joe Biden’s agenda, but as a tool historically used for racism.
Gun control groups are joining the progressive fight to end the filibuster as the Senate voting rule threatens their goal of passing comprehensive gun reform.
"Historian of the 20th century South here. I dispute Mitch's statement. The filibuster has a ton of 'racial history.'"
This brief will explore the racist history of the filibuster, how it came to be used as it is today, and outline this history specifically through the lens of gun violence prevention, cataloging legislation that has been impeded by the use of the filibuster, obstructing progress toward safer communities and fewer needless tragedies.
The filibuster is a procedural tool of the Senate that delays or prevents a piece of legislation from being brought to a vote. It is a vestige of a deal made to appeal to segregationists and has historically been used to block passage of civil rights legislation.
