'Abolishing the filibuster is not radical,' said Public_Citizen. 'What's radical is watching anti-abortion, anti-trans, and voter suppression legislation sweep the nation and doing nothing to stop it.'
"Abolishing the filibuster is not radical," said the advocacy group Public Citizen."What's radical is watching anti-abortion, anti-trans, and voter suppression legislation sweep the nation and doing nothing to stop it."Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that Democrats can't allow the archaic legislative filibuster to obstruct urgently needed action on abortion rights as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the upper chamber will vote next week on a.
In a floor speech on Thursday, Schumer said that"next week's vote will be one of the most important we ever take, because it deals with one of the most personal and difficult decisions a woman ever has to make in her life." "This is not an abstract exercise. My fellow Americans: it is as real and as urgent as it gets," he added, saying he intends to tee up a vote for Wednesday."Senate Republicans spent years packing our courts with right-wing judges. Will they now own up to the harm they've caused or will they try to undo the damage?"
Schumer made no mention, however, of the Senate's legislative filibuster, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to end debate on most bills in the upper chamber.
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