{"id":550240,"date":"2021-06-02T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550240"},"modified":"2021-06-02T20:21:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:21:07","slug":"kyrsten-sinema-defends-filibuster-saying-it-protects-the-democracy-of-our-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kyrsten-sinema-defends-filibuster-saying-it-protects-the-democracy-of-our-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrsten Sinema Defends Filibuster, Saying It \u2018Protects The Democracy Of Our Nation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fkyrsten-sinema-defends-filibuster-saying-it-protects-the-democracy-of-our-nation%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=550240&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\/og-default.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Wednesday defended the filibuster, saying it \u201cprotects the democracy of our nation,\u201d despite complaints from her fellow Democrats who want to eliminate it in order to accomplish policy goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs folks in Arizona know, I\u2019ve long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation, rather than allowing our country to ricochet wildly every two to four years back and forth between policies,\u201d Sinema told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Republicans filibustered to successfully block the creation of an\u00a0independent,\u00a0bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the first time the minority party has used their\u00a0filibuster power in the Senate this year.<\/p>\n<p>With 54 votes in favor of establishing the commission and 35 against, the vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the GOP filibuster. Eliminating the filibuster would allow Democrats to use a simple majority to pass major legislation. The Senate is currently split 50-50, but Democrats have Vice President Kamala Harris to cast the tie-breaking vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not believe the additional extraneous commission that Democratic leaders want would uncover crucial new facts or promote healing,\u201d Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said before the vote. \u201cFrankly, I do not believe it is even designed to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats are now at odds over what to do about the filibuster, with some like Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) criticizing it as a tool used to \u201cblock the will of the majority of the American people.\u201d Meanwhile, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate,\u00a0Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), has vocally opposed eliminating the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have a system that\u2019s not working effectively, and I would think that most would agree that the Senate is not a particularly well-oiled machine right, the way to fix that is to change your behavior, not to eliminate the rules or to change the rules,\u201d Sinema said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m going to continue to go to work every day, aggressively seeking bipartisanship in a cheerful and happy warrior way as I always do, and showing that when we work together we can get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinema\u2019s remarks came during her visit\u00a0of U.S. border facilities in Arizona, her home state, alongside Sen.\u00a0John Cornyn\u00a0(R-TX),<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m a daily example that bipartisanship is possible,\u201d Sinema remarked, pointing to her previous work with Cornyn and other Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The Founding Founders created the Senate in a particular way in order to \u201cprotect the rights of the minority\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, Sinema joined Cornyn in calling on Biden to use his \u201cfull authorities\u201d to address the migrant crisis at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>The two senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sinema-joins-cornyn-calling-on-biden-to-use-full-authorities-to-address-border-crisis\">urged<\/a> Biden to \u201ctake immediate action in two areas: ensuring there are sufficient resources and facilities at the border to manage the crisis and taking concrete steps to improve the asylum process.\u201d<\/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. 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Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Wednesday defended the filibuster, saying it \u201cprotects the democracy of our nation,\u201d despite complaints from her fellow Democrats who want to eliminate it in order &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279003,"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\/og-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kyrsten Sinema Defends Filibuster, Saying It \u2018Protects The Democracy Of Our Nation\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550240","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\/og-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kyrsten Sinema Defends Filibuster, Saying It \u2018Protects The Democracy Of Our Nation\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550240","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=550240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}