Democrats Signal They Won't Allow Republicans To Waste Time And Obstruct Biden

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22. Originally it was for everything (a motion to proceed) - including confirmations (required 2/3rds)

Then by agreement, the number was dropped to 60 (3/5ths). Then Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option in 2013 to change the filibuster rule to allow confirmations to proceed without needing cloture (3/5ths), but it remained for everything else except Reconciliation and certain legislation that have rules that already define the debate - for example when they did those seditious Electoral College vote "objections" which had rules predetermined that deprecated a need for a cloture vote to initiate the objections debate.

The other way - which actually happens a lot - is to do "unanimous consent" and if no one is there to object, then boom! Something is automatically passed without debate.

The demand is to remove the 3/5ths requirement for everything still requiring it, in order to move a piece of business forward for consideration by a simple majority vote (including if a unanimous consent fails).

(ETA - one way to "weaken" but not kill is to keep cloture for very specific legislation and remove the requirement for other things)