Democratic insiders set up a 'war room' to quickly kill the filibuster

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Democratic insiders set up a 'war room' to quickly kill the filibuster
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told NBC News ending the 60-vote rule "should be the first item of business" if Democrats sweep the 2020 races.
Sept. 11, 2020, 6:10 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 11, 2020, 7:28 PM EDT
By Sahil Kapur


WASHINGTON — Democratic insiders are assembling a coalition behind the scenes to wage an all-out war on the Senate filibuster in bullish anticipation of sweeping the 2020 election and passing an ambitious progressive agenda.

Veteran party operatives, activist groups and supportive senators are coordinating message and strategy to dial up the pressure to quickly end the 60-vote threshold early next year, fearing that preservation of the rule will enable Republicans to kill Joe Biden’s legislative agenda in its cradle.

They’re consolidating that effort under a coalition called Fix Our Senate run by Eli Zupnick, a former communications director for No. 3 Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

Members include liberal groups like Indivisible, Communications Workers of America, Working Families Party, Brady Campaign, Demand Justice, Data for Progress, Evergreen Action, Stand Up America and Common Cause.

The advisory board features a raft of well-connected Democratic veterans with access to senators, like former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid’s deputy chiefs of staff Bill Dauster and Adam Jentleson, Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign manager Faiz Shakir, former Obama White House aide Dana Singiser and ex-CWA president and anti-filibuster crusader Larry Cohen.

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[Thekaspervote]

1. happy to hear it! We're going to have a lot to do. And maybe only two years to do it

[Laelth]

2. Excellent. It needs to go.

Republicans, if they’re so fond of the filibuster, will be welcome to reinstate it when they next control the Senate. They won’t, of course, and that proves that the filibuster has outlived its usefulness.

-Laelth

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Good! They'll need to hit the ground running

They’ll only have 12-14 months to enact substantive change that benefits all Americans. After that, the midterm jitters will start eating away at the courage of some legislators.

[dalton99a]

4. Kill it dead. It's the only way to get things accomplished for the American people.

[Baked Potato]

5. We really need the Senate.

[crickets]

6. Good. Get rid of the filibuster and Mitch as Majority leader.

I'm so tired of Repubs sabotaging Democratic presidents and holding House bills hostage. It's time to make it stop.

[aquamarina]

7. Absofuckinglootly

Enough of this needing 60 votes to pass anything. That is effectively giving the minority party control over everything. It’s time to go back to majority rules.

[Takket]

8. Pardon my ignorance but...

Are Senators still required to stand and be speaking during a filibuster? I thought I read a while back they did NOT and basically all you had to do was declare you were filibustering and nothing else.

[krawhitham]

9. This is so dumb, image the damage Trump would have done with no filibuster

[Amishman]

10. Yes, I think removing it is short sighted

We don't have full control forever.

[kcr]

11. Yeah, imagine that.

Imagine there were real, actual consequences for our vote instead of the deadlocked mess we get now. Trump probably never would have been elected in the first place.