{"id":1197663,"date":"2022-01-07T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197663"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:20:21","slug":"obama-clinton-winfrey-team-up-to-convince-manchin-to-kill-filibuster-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-clinton-winfrey-team-up-to-convince-manchin-to-kill-filibuster-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Clinton, Winfrey Team Up To Convince Manchin To Kill Filibuster: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-clinton-winfrey-team-up-to-convince-manchin-to-kill-filibuster-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>According to a report, Democrats are so desperate to eliminate the Senate filibuster \u2014 which would enable the Democrats, who control the Senate, to pass legislation regarding voting that would be highly favorable to them\u2014 that two former presidents and celebrity Oprah Winfrey have contacted Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who is considered the pivotal vote in the Senate, to pressure him into accepting the filibuster\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n<p>Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have joined Winfrey in the cooperative effort to persuade Manchin, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/07\/clinton-oprah-democrats-manchin-filibuster-526691\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManchin has told colleagues that his phone line has been lighting up with prominent names outside the Senate in recent days. He\u2019s heard from former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and talk-show legend Oprah Winfrey, plus former staffers to both Manchin and former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), according to a person familiar with the talks,\u201d Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">In January 2021, Manchin clearly stated he would not support killing the filibuster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/01\/25\/joe-manchin-filibuster-462364\">saying<\/a>, \u201cIf I haven\u2019t said it very plain, maybe Sen. McConnell hasn\u2019t understood, I want to basically say it for you. That I will not vote in this Congress, that\u2019s two years, right? I will not vote\u201d to change the filibuster. \u201cAnd I hope with that guarantee in place he will work in a much more amicable way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in the same place I\u2019ve always been,\u201d he added. \u201cBusting the filibuster under any conditions is wrong. We can organize the Senate. I\u2019m sure we can work through that. If he knows as strongly as I feel about it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same month, speaking on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d with host Jake Tapper, Manchin stated that he was against eliminating the legislative filibuster, saying, \u201cI\u2019m basically for making this place work together. I don\u2019t know if that works. I\u2019d be no on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of the filibuster, a minimum of 60 votes is needed to advance legislation; most Democratic proposals would require at least 10 GOP senators to agree in order for them to be passed. Eliminating the legislative filibuster would enable the Democrats to pass legislation with a simple majority vote.<\/p>\n<p>The way the filibuster works is this: the minority party can keep debate open on a legislative issue until the Senate votes to close the issue, but to close the vote takes 60 votes.&nbsp;There are limitations on the filibuster: it cannot be used for certain budget bills, federal executive branch appointees and judicial appointments, including Supreme Court nominees.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange between the two men went like this, as Tapper conducted what he called a \u201clightning round\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><em>Tapper: It\u2019s tough getting a senator to do a lightning round, but I have to ask you because&nbsp;we have less than a minute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Manchin: Okay. Let\u2019s do it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tapper: Eliminating the legislative filibuster. Yes or no?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Manchin: Oh, Jake, I\u2019m basically for making this place work together. I don\u2019t know if that works. I\u2019d be no on that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report, Democrats are so desperate to eliminate the Senate filibuster \u2014 which would enable the Democrats, who control the Senate, to pass legislation regarding voting that would be highly favorable to them\u2014 that two former presidents and celebrity Oprah Winfrey have contacted Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who is considered the pivotal vote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}