Schumer reveals endgame for clash over filibuster and voting reform

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Chuck Schumer will bring elections and voting legislation to the Senate floor in the coming days, using existing congressional rules to evade an initial GOP filibuster.

The House will imminently pass a bill containing both sweeping federal elections reform and beefed up Voting Right Act provisions. Because the bill will be sent to the Senate as a “message” from the House, it will not be subject to an initial filibuster by the GOP and will be debated on the floor.

Instead, the Senate will confront its raging debate over the filibuster when Majority Leader Schumer moves to shut down debate.

“The Senate will finally debate voting rights legislation, and then every senator will be faced with a choice of whether or not to pass the legislation to protect our democracy,” Schumer wrote in a memo, obtained by POLITICO, to Senate Democrats.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schumer-reveals-endgame-for-clash-over-filibuster-and-voting-reform/ar-AASHW4m

[Lovie777]

1. The two senators one from WV and the other from AZ ......

Money is more important than Democracy.

[Chainfire]

2. I wish I understood the parliamentary procedure.

'Cause it ain't like anything I learned in high school...

[Igel]

3. Apparently it's a thing.

But a message isn't a bill. The debate and discussion may send a "message", but no more.

Most of the US gov uses an in-house Robert's Rules of Orders. A bit arcane, but there you go. It's still the norm for many commitees. (I always wanted to call for a "division of the assembly" when asking for a vote.


As for how important the Senate considers them, ponder https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/16/a-message-to-the-senate-on-the-amendment-to-the-montreal-protocol-on-substances-that-deplete-the-ozone-layer/ .

I missed where there was a show-down over the Kigali Amendment.

[PortTack]

4. Leader Schumer obviously sees this as a risk worth taking. Yes there have been 2 that are hold outs

Me...I will wait and trust our dem leaders!