{"id":570159,"date":"2021-06-22T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570159"},"modified":"2021-06-22T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:06:20","slug":"kyrsten-sinema-reaffirms-that-she-will-not-support-abolishing-the-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kyrsten-sinema-reaffirms-that-she-will-not-support-abolishing-the-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrsten Sinema Reaffirms That She Will Not Support Abolishing The Filibuster"},"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\">22<\/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-reaffirms-that-she-will-not-support-abolishing-the-filibuster%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=570159&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>Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema reaffirmed her opposition to abolishing the 60-vote Senate filibuster, rebuffing progressives who have decried the legislative rule and called for its removal.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema argued that scrapping the Senate rule would erode \u201cdemocracy\u2019s guardrails,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/21\/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster-for-the-people-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writing in The Washington Post<\/a> that doing so would lead the nation to \u201close much more than we gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that I oppose eliminating the Senate\u2019s 60-vote threshold,\u201d Sinema wrote. \u201cI held the same view during three terms in the U.S. House, and said the same after I was elected to the Senate in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone expected me to reverse my position because my party now controls the Senate, they should know that my approach to legislating in Congress is the same whether in the minority or majority,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema also argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/chuck-schumer-tim-scott-democrats-senate-joe-biden-full-government-control-wish-list-stalling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filibuster<\/a> was essential to ensure moderation and compromise, and a necessary safeguard against wild, sweeping policy by the majority over and objections from the minority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould it be good for our country if we [passed the For the People Act], only to see that legislation rescinded a few years from now and replaced by a nationwide voter-ID law or restrictions on voting by mail in federal elections, over the objections of the minority?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould it be good for our country if we [expanded health care access], only to later see that legislation replaced by legislation dividing Medicaid into block grants, slashing earned Social Security and Medicare benefits, or defunding women\u2019s reproductive health services?\u201d she added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/25\/kyrsten-sinema-against-eliminating-filibuster-senate-not-open-to-changing-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Sinema \u2018Not Open To Changing Her Mind\u2019 On The Filibuster)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7218087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7218087\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7218087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Senators Meet On New Infrastructure Plan After Talks With President Biden Collapse\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-620x414-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7218087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kyrsten Sinema meets with Democrats and Republicans in search of a bipartisan infrastructure plan. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sinema\u2019s op-ed was published a day before the Senate votes on advancing S.1, Democrats\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/chuck-schumer-mitch-mcconnell-for-the-people-act-congress-elections-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sweeping voting rights bill<\/a> that would overhaul federal elections and adopt policies like no-excuse absentee voting, ballot harvesting and a ban on partisan gerrymandering nationwide. Republicans are united in their opposition against it, meaning that it is certain to fail since there is no path to it receiving 60 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin have been the two Democrats most vocal about keeping the filibuster. However, while Sinema is a co-sponsor of S.1, Manchin has said that he does not support it as currently written, and has not revealed whether he will vote to advance the bill Tuesday.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/mcconnell-blast-manchins-voting-compromise-same-rotten-core-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: McConnell Blasts Manchin\u2019s Voting Rights Compromise)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outside groups have pressured Sinema on her filibuster stance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yBP6mjYUNQI\">releasing ads<\/a> in her home state urging her to reverse course. Over 140 LGBTQ advocates wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kai_newkirk\/status\/1407132657780027395\">letter<\/a> to her on Monday calling on her to change her position in order to pass the Equality Act, even threatening to support a primary challenger if she refuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you refuse to do this, we will have no choice but to seriously consider whether our support for you, including financial donations, may better serve our community if directed to another Democrat who will use their power as a US senator to stand up for our rights,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema reaffirmed her opposition to abolishing the 60-vote Senate filibuster, rebuffing progressives who have decried the legislative rule and called for its removal.Sinema argued that scrapping &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280939,"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\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kyrsten Sinema Reaffirms That She Will Not Support Abolishing The Filibuster","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343242-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kyrsten Sinema Reaffirms That She Will Not Support Abolishing The Filibuster","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570159","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=570159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}