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17 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: @JoeBiden champions a "talking filibuster" that makes it harder for a minority to block legislation.

Support among Democrats is growing: @DickDurbin and @Sen_JoeManchin endorsed the concept in recent days.

This would be a huge change to the Senate.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Joe Biden on why he wants to change the filibuster rule: "It's getting to the point where democracy is having a hard time functioning." nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
I asked @DickDurbin today what turned him against the filibuster. He mentioned Mitch McConnell, losing the Dream Act to the 60-vote rule and protecting civil rights.

"There comes a point where you ask: What is the value of this body?" he said.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Biden’s remarks came after McConnell warned of “a completely scorched-earth Senate” if Democrats go nuclear on the legislative filibuster. “The Senate would be more like a hundred-car pile-up. Nothing moving,” the Republican leader said. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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15 Mar
Dick Durbin is on the floor torching the modern filibuster, saying it has "become the death grip of democracy."

"Senators can literally phone in a filibuster... Today's filibuster has turned the world's greatest deliberative body into one of the world's most ineffectual bodies."
From there, @SenatorDurbin mentions the DREAM Act, which was filibustered to death in 2010.

A new version of that bill is up for a vote this week in the House, where it's expected to pass. But it faces long odds again in the Senate under the 60-vote rule.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin says the filibuster has to go. He says there should at least be a "standing filibuster" that requires senators to talk in order to hold up a bill.

"It's time to change the Senate rules," he says. "Stop holding the Senate hostage."
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13 Mar
NEW —> 'A tremendous sea change': Democrats see a path to remaking the Senate filibuster

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Joe Manchin’s interest in making it more “painful” to obstruct has sparked new talks among Senate Democrats about a “talking filibuster.”

Full abolition is highly unlikely.

But this would be a major change and open the door to a more aggressive agenda.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
.@SenJeffMerkley, chief filibuster antagonist, tells me: “There’s been a tremendous sea change in the Democratic caucus, saying: ‘We were elected to solve problems, not to apologize because McConnell stopped us.’ That excuse will not fly, nor should it.” nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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13 Mar
🚨 Stimulus cash is already out the door. This is a bank posting sent to me by a member of a family of four making under $150,000. 🚨
Another
And one more. $1,400 payments are hitting bank accounts.
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10 Mar
BREAKING: CONGRESS VOTES TO SEND $1.9 TRILLION COVID RELIEF BILL TO BIDEN'S DESK

—$1,400 stimulus checks
—$300-a-week jobless benefits
—$3,000-$3,600 cash for kids
—$34B for ACA subsidies
—100% COBRA subsidies
—$350B state/local aid
—$14B vaccine distribution
—$25B rental aid
The House gave final passage to the Senate-approved Covid aid package on a vote of 220-211.
Just one Democrat voted NO on the Covid bill: Jared Golden of Maine.

Kurt Schrader flipped from NO on the original House bill to YES on final passage today.
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9 Mar
NEW: Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid bill delivers stimulus and a political fight

Dems plan to "shout if from the rooftops" and see it as key to bucking the midterm curse in 2022.

GOP is invested in undermining it.

Message war has just begun.

My latest 👇

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Republicans recognize the Covid bill is popular.

It is trickier to run against than the '09 stimulus: The benefits are more tangible and there is minimal grassroots firepower against it, with conservatives more attuned to cultural fights like Dr. Seuss. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
New @PewResearch poll: 70% of U.S. adults say they favor the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 economic aid package proposed by Biden, including 41% of self-identified Republicans. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
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6 Mar
BREAKING: Senate votes 50-49 to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief package.

Every Democrat votes YES, every Republican votes NO.
The one absence in the Covid relief vote is Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who left town for a family emergency, per his office.
SENATE PASSES THE COVID RELIEF BILL

It includes:

—$1,400 stimulus checks
—$300-a-week jobless benefits
—Child allowance up to $3,600
—$350 billion state/local aid
—$34 billion for ACA subsidies
—$14 billion vaccine distribution
—100% COBRA subsidies

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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