White House: Joe Biden ‘Open to Hearing Ideas’ About Getting Rid of Filibuster Rule

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White House: Joe Biden ‘Open to Hearing Ideas’ About Getting Rid of Filibuster Rule

Charlie Spiering 16 Mar 2021

President Joe Biden is open to ideas about getting rid of the Senate filibuster, the White House said Tuesday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that although Biden’s “preference” was “not to make changes” to the filibuster, “he is also open to hearing ideas.”

Psaki spoke to reporters about the filibuster during the president’s trip to Pennsylvania to promote his massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus spending bill.

She pointed out that Biden did not have the power to stop Democrats from changing the Senate rules.

“This is, of course, a Senate rule,” she said. “It’s not a law that he would change or sign into law. It’s a Senate rule.”

When Biden was a senator, he defended the filibuster as a tool of “compromise and moderation.”

“At its core, the filibuster is not about stopping a nominee or a bill, it is about compromise and moderation,” Biden said on the Senate floor in 2005.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/16/white-house-joe-biden-open-to-hearing-ideas-about-getting-rid-of-filibuster-rule/

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"Open to ideas"...bullshit they have been waiting for this moment for years..

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Harry Reid: Filibuster on Its Way Out — ‘Not a Question of If But When’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/16/harry-reid-filibuster-on-its-way-out-not-a-question-of-if-but-when/