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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 22, 2021, 12:50:00 am
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Meet the Make the Senate Great Again caucus
By Jordain Carney - 03/21/21 06:18 PM EDT
A bipartisan gang wants to nix one of the Senate’s defining features: its dysfunction.
Amid growing pressure to get rid of the filibuster — which progressives view as the cause of the chamber’s “graveyard†status — a group of 20 senators are trying to show that the Senate can still work, and potentially prevent a looming standoff over the fate of the 60-vote threshold for most legislation.
“The bipartisan group is a really good core of wanting to move the ball forward. ... So if we can achieve that, I think the pressure on the Democrats to throw the filibuster out certainly dissipates,†said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).
The gang is the latest entry in a long line of bipartisan groups that have cropped up at crucial moments in the chamber’s history. And it could serve as a bellwether over whether it’s possible to still cut deals in an institution that has become increasingly battered by partisan headwinds.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/544106-meet-the-make-the-senate-great-again-caucus