{"id":4985,"date":"2021-04-19T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T11:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T11:45:43","slug":"joe-manchin-opens-the-door-to-filibuster-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4985","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manchin opens the door to filibuster reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;under a \u201ctalking filibuster,\u201d any \u201cmember of the minority party can filibuster as long as he\/she stays put on the floor.\u201d But once a member finishes speaking, the filibuster would end, and \u201cthere\u2019d be a vote at a simple majority threshold\u201d of 50 votes, instead of the existing 60-vote threshold required to end a filibuster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s a big change, because there\u2019s currently no actual filibustering required to filibuster in the Senate, at least not in the conventional sense.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/5\/27\/18089312\/myths-about-the-filibuster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As Vox explained back in 2015<\/a>, the modern filibuster doesn\u2019t require a senator talking on the floor for hours on end to delay a bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, today\u2019s filibuster is a straightforward move to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22260164\/filibuster-senate-fix-reform-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-cloture-mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reject unanimous consent<\/a>&nbsp;on a bill that the minority can wield painlessly&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/3\/7\/22318145\/joe-manchin-filibuster-reform\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/3\/7\/22318145\/joe-manchin-filibuster-reform<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;under a \u201ctalking filibuster,\u201d any \u201cmember of the minority party can filibuster as long as he\/she stays put on the floor.\u201d But once a member finishes speaking, the filibuster would end, and \u201cthere\u2019d be a vote at a simple majority threshold\u201d of 50 votes, instead of the existing 60-vote threshold required to end a filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a big change, because there\u2019s currently no actual filibustering required to filibuster in the Senate, at least not in the conventional sense. As Vox explained back in 2015, the modern filibuster doesn\u2019t require a senator talking on the floor for hours on end to delay a bill.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, today\u2019s filibuster is a straightforward move to reject unanimous consent on a bill that the minority can wield painlessly&#8221;<\/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":[964,1172,865],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-filibuster","tag-joe-manchin","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","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=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}