{"id":188508,"date":"2021-03-03T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188508"},"modified":"2021-03-03T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:45:37","slug":"democrats-shift-to-reforming-the-filibuster-amid-concerns-senate-will-become-legislative-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-shift-to-reforming-the-filibuster-amid-concerns-senate-will-become-legislative-graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Shift To \u2018Reforming\u2019 The Filibuster Amid Concerns Senate Will Become \u2018Legislative Graveyard\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdemocrats-shift-to-reforming-the-filibuster-amid-concerns-senate-will-become-legislative-graveyard%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=188508&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Schumer-4.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Progressive Democrats are pushing for Senate leadership to shift from the Biden administration\u2019s legislative agenda to an all-out push to \u201creform\u201d the filibuster amid concerns that the Senate is becoming a \u201clegislative graveyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate will tangle with the Biden administration\u2019s COVID-19 relief bill at the end of this week. And while the bill passed easily through the House late last week, Democrats in the Senate will likely have to push the measure through using \u201creconciliation\u201d \u2014 a procedural method that allows them to pass a \u201cbudget-related\u201d measure with a simple majority vote but leaves progressives\u2019 agenda items, like the \u201cminimum wage\u201d on the cutting room floor.<\/p>\n<p>For other Biden agenda items, Democrats are dependent on just a handful of more moderate Senators, like West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin and Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, whose constituents are not supportive of far-left ideas like the minimum wage hike and the Green New Deal, leaving progressive bills dead on arrival at the Senate\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberal Democrats are growing more and more worried that the Senate will serve as a legislative graveyard for\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">President Biden<\/span>\u2019s agenda unless he and other centrists rally behind doing away with the filibuster,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/541328-democrats-worry-senate-will-be-graveyard-for-biden-agenda\">the Hill noted Wednesday<\/a>. \u201cThe tensions, for now, are mostly under the surface as the party approaches an initial victory under Biden: passage into law of a giant $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis initial victory will cover up for fears among Democrats that big-ticket items passed in the House will die in the Senate unless the party greases the gears for change by ending the filibuster,\u201d the outlet continued.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed \u201csolution\u201d of doing away with the filibuster allows Democrats to seek just 50 \u2014 not 60 \u2014 votes for much of their legislative agenda and avoids having to court Republican assent. But that idea is having a hard time earning leadership\u2019s support, according to The Hill, even if it means the Senate would be able to easily pass much of President Joe Biden\u2019s pet legislation, particularly in light of how doing away with the filibuster for judicial appointees ended up handicapping Democrats on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is we\u2019re going to figure out \u2014 we\u2019re going to come together as a caucus and figure out a way to get the bold action that the American people demand,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Wednesday, neatly ducking a question over whether the White House was pressuring him to move on the filibuster issue.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, for his part, appears to oppose it \u2014 at least currently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s view on the filibuster is well known,\u201d Jen Psaki said when asked about the idea last week. \u201cHe has not changed that point of view but certainly any step to protect voting rights, to ensure that it\u2019s easier and not harder for people to vote in the country, we feel is a positive step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the matter of Manchin and Sinema; both would have to agree to drop the filibuster for Democrats\u2019 plan to work, and neither seems in favor of the idea \u2014 and neither represents a constituency that loves it, either.<\/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\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Democrats are pushing for Senate leadership to shift from the Biden administration\u2019s legislative agenda to an all-out push to \u201creform\u201d the filibuster amid concerns that the Senate is becoming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274680,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Schumer-4.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Shift To \u2018Reforming\u2019 The Filibuster Amid Concerns Senate Will Become \u2018Legislative Graveyard\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Schumer-4.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Shift To \u2018Reforming\u2019 The Filibuster Amid Concerns Senate Will Become \u2018Legislative Graveyard\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188508","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}