Senator Sinema flatly refused to support changing Senate rules. She state that her position not changing and said the following:
“There’s no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There’s no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy,” Sinema, D-Ariz., said. “This week’s harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year.”
Also from the article:
She added: “But what is the legislative filibuster, other than a tool that requires new federal policy to be broadly supported by senators, representing the broader cross-section of Americans… Demands to eliminate this threshold from whichever party holds the fleeting majority amount to a group of people separated on two sides of a canyon, shouting that solution to their colleagues.”
I guess I’d be ok to debate changing from 60 to something else.
Just remember, the shoe will be on the other foot eventually. F.e. Republicans were able to ram through the Amy Coney Barrett without needing a supermajority partially due to Harry Reid.
You don’t see much in the media about Schumer’s flip-flop on killing the filibuster. It wasn’t long ago (when Dems were in the minority) that Schumer said that ending the filibuster would be the end of the Republic.
GOP Senators have been reading his past statements on the Senate floor. But do we see the media getting upset about Schumer’s forked-tongue politics? Hardly.
Bet money. When GOP regains power, and if they again try to trash the filibuster, the media will be wetting their pants while pumping all feeds with past statements from this current go-round on the issue.
