{"id":4308,"date":"2021-01-26T14:49:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:49:25","slug":"why-mitch-mcconnell-relented-on-his-demands-about-preserving-the-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4308","title":{"rendered":"Why Mitch McConnell relented on his demands about preserving the filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is no longer holding up the Senate organizing resolution<\/a> \u2014 after two Democrats confirmed that they won\u2019t be blowing up the legislative filibuster any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past few weeks, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and McConnell have been working to negotiate the organizing resolution \u2014 which governs committee membership and funding allocation \u2014 in the 50-50 Senate. The leaders had previously been at an impasse because McConnell had demanded that Democrats commit to keeping the legislative filibuster intact as part of the resolution \u2014 something Schumer was unwilling to do, since it would reduce the party\u2019s leverage in negotiations over future legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the organizing resolution could be filibustered \u2014 and would need 60 votes to pass \u2014 McConnell\u2019s opposition effectively allowed him to block the measure from advancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while he didn\u2019t get the changes to the organizing resolution he wanted, McConnell\u2019s approach still worked, in a way: Amid the impasse over the agreement, two Senate Democrats \u2014 Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) \u2014 publicly restated that they would not vote to eliminate the filibuster. Without their backing, Democrats simply won\u2019t have the numbers to do a rules change: All 50 members of the caucus would need to get behind a change to the filibuster for it to happen. (This position is consistent with stances both lawmakers have vocalized before.)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/25\/22249786\/mitch-mcconnell-filibuster-organizing-resolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is no longer holding up the Senate organizing resolution \u2014 after two Democrats confirmed that they won\u2019t be blowing up the legislative filibuster any time soon.<\/p>\n

In the past few weeks, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and McConnell have been working to negotiate the organizing resolution \u2014 which governs committee membership and funding allocation \u2014 in the 50-50 Senate. The leaders had previously been at an impasse because McConnell had demanded that Democrats commit to keeping the legislative filibuster intact as part of the resolution \u2014 something Schumer was unwilling to do, since it would reduce the party\u2019s leverage in negotiations over future legislation.<\/p>\n

Since the organizing resolution could be filibustered \u2014 and would need 60 votes to pass \u2014 McConnell\u2019s opposition effectively allowed him to block the measure from advancing.<\/p>\n

And while he didn\u2019t get the changes to the organizing resolution he wanted, McConnell\u2019s approach still worked, in a way: Amid the impasse over the agreement, two Senate Democrats \u2014 Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) \u2014 publicly restated that they would not vote to eliminate the filibuster. Without their backing, Democrats simply won\u2019t have the numbers to do a rules change: All 50 members of the caucus would need to get behind a change to the filibuster for it to happen. (This position is consistent with stances both lawmakers have vocalized before.)”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[964,755,865],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-filibuster","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}