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They didn't fillibuster it, they voted against it.
Incorrect. When a Bill/CR doesn't pass Senate cloture so it can proceed to a simple majority vote, it's been filibustered.
That's why positive progress is so difficult in this country: too many ignorant lefties, basing their votes on their lack of knowledge and/or incorrect or incomplete info.
"A strategy employed in the United States Senate, whereby a minority can delay a vote on proposed legislation by making long speeches or introducing irrelevant issues. A successful filibuster can force withdrawal of a bill."
Shutdown will enter third day. The Dealmaker-in-Chief didn't even come down to discuss the situation with lawmakers today.
Nor should he. Let Dems reap the wrath they've sown by prioritizing illegal aliens over US Citizens. Let them stew in their own mess while the entire country soaks in this reality.
"A filibuster, as the Senate Historical Office considers it, is an effort to delay or block legislative action by preventing a vote.
There are a few types of filibusters, including the “talking filibuster†of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington†fame, in which a senator takes the floor for hours (and hours) on end, going so far as to read the phone book or other lengthy literature to kill time, until the Senate leadership gives up and pulls the bill in question from the floor.
Those dramatic proceedings have been replaced with a much more common – almost routine – effort to block legislation, in which one senator objects to an up-or-down vote on a measure or confirmation, frequently signaling such intention behind the scenes. That, in modern practice, is what a “filibuster†usually entails and is what most senators refer to when they mention the maneuver.
In this case, rather than proceed straight to the vote – for example, the Gorsuch confirmation, which only requires a simple majority – the Senate must first debate the measure, for up to two days, and then vote to end debate, which is known as a cloture vote.
This is what Senate Democrats are doing in the Gorsuch case. They have filibustered the confirmation vote, and under the current rules, Republicans do not have enough votes to break the filibuster, or pass the cloture vote, which requires 60 votes to confirm."
No, to Dems, illegal aliens have priority over US Citizens.
Statements like this continues to demonstrate the mentality of Right Wing Republicans... It's simply sick...
to continue uttering the same silliness over and over is absurd.
The majority of Americans are fine with DACA, want CHIPS renewed, and dislike both Trump and his worthless wall.
The majority of Americans also know that Republicans control the White House, the House, and the Senate.
So much is bound to happen between now and November that I doubt this will have much of an impact on the midterm elections.
The larger impact is likely to come from the millions who marched.
"The majority of Americans are fine with DACA, want CHIPS renewed, and dislike both Trump and his worthless wall."
You keep making these baseless claims over and over with NOTHING to back it up.
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