The Filibuster which has delayed legislation and given the minority party in the senate the power to stranglehold almost any legislation they do not approve of. Yes at times it has prevented some terrible legislation from passing. However it has prevented some very good legislation from passing! Examples of this are The John Lewis voting rights act which the GOP is holding up in the senate. What is the filibuster? Basically in a nut shell it takes at least 60 votes to bring a piece of legislation for a vote to the floor. In todays world of partisanship and division good legislation is being prevented from making it to the senate floor. How do we change this? All it takes is a vote of 51 U,S senators. What is holding this up since the democrats have a slim majority to accomplish this? Two senators. They are Joe Manchin of West Virginia Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. The two so called moderates. The media should get it right and call them Right Wing conservatives!
No comments:
Post a Comment