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Those were the priorities; they needed to get through without any filibuster.
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Enough Senate Democrats were expected to support the plan to surmount any filibuster.
We got them all done without a filibuster".
If passed without a filibuster, that legislation could force the House speaker's hand and quiet his raucous Republican conference.
It also misstated the number of non-Republican senators' votes required to confirm Neil Gorsuch without a filibuster, and a provision of the proposed federal-tax overhaul by Republicans.
What actually happened was that senators decided to confirm President Bush's most objectionable nominees without a filibuster while agreeing to a formula that professed to preserve the filibuster for use against the most objectionable nominees.
In a world without a filibuster, instead of signing every single Democrat to those initiatives, which means every single Democrat had veto power over anything they didn't like in those initiatives, you would have needed 51 of the 59 or 60 Democrats serving in the Senate.
The U.S. House of Representatives functions just fine without a filibuster.
One must assume that these Senators were concerned about a future Senate in which Republicans rule without a filibuster.
Without a Filibuster, Donald Trump does not need even 1 Democratic vote and Republicans would have full dictatorial control over politics and policy and The Supreme Court.
Without a filibuster, when the summer arrives, and the 1-2 Justices announce their retirements, the president can nominate really good people to the bench.
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