'The future of our country is sacrificed at the altar of the filibuster. Something must change,' the former Senate majority leader wrote in 2019.
In November 2013, the Reid-led Senate Democratic majority ended the 60-vote rule for presidential nominations in response to unceasing Republican obstruction. Following his retirement from the Senate in 2017, Reid endorsed the complete elimination of the filibuster, which he said was"suffocating the will of the American people."
"The Senate is now a place where the most pressing issues facing our country are disregarded, along with the will of the American people overwhelmingly calling for action. The future of our country is sacrificed at the altar of the filibuster," Reidop-ed published in August 2019."Something must change. That is why I am now calling on the Senate to abolish the filibuster in all its forms.":"It is not a question of if. It is a question of when we get rid of the filibuster.
"The answer is yes," Reid said when asked whether he would support nuking the filibuster rule to pass climate legislation."[T]he No. 1 priority is climate change. There's nothing that affects my children, grandchildren, and their children, right now, more than climate." Altering or scrapping the filibuster rule would require the backing of all 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus plus a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris—a level of support the party has yet to reach thanks largely to Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema , the upper chamber's most ardent filibuster apologists.
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