Voicing confidence that Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats will win the election, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’s eyeing changes to the 60-vote filibuster rule to pass a pair of major bills that would expand voting rights nationwide.



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Schumer: Voting rights will be first priority in 2025 if Democrats control Congress

In a session with reporters at the Democratic National Convention, Schumer suggested that — should Democrats win the White House, Senate and House in November — he would seek to end the filibuster.

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Chuck Schumer potentially eliminating the filibuster is the key to a radical agenda

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says Democrats will prioritize circumventing the Senate filibuster to pass voting rights legislation if they keep control of the White House and Senate and win back the House in November.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’s eyeing changes to the 60-vote filibuster rule to pass a pair of major bills that would expand voting rights.

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Chuck Schumer outlines 2025 agenda if Democrats sweep, eying filibuster changes

Schumer will need to avoid losing the Senate majority for the idea to pay off.

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CHICAGO — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says Democrats will prioritize circumventing the Senate filibuster to pass voting rights legislation if they keep control of the White House and Senate and win back the House in November. Schumer attempted to carve out a loophole in the Senate’s filibuster rule, which requires 60 votes to end debate and move to a final vote on a bill, to pass voting rights legislation in January 2022, but h…

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Chuck Schumer said he’s eyeing changes to the 60-vote filibuster rule to pass a pair of major bills that would expand voting rights nationwide. Via NBC News: Schumer, D-N.Y., outlined a path for Democrats to change the Senate rules that require holding 50 of their 51 seats. The party expects to lose Sen. Joe Manchin's seat in West Virginia but hopes to protect incumbents, including Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in additio…

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Schumer Eyes Changes To Filibuster For Abortion, Voting Bills

In some ways, Democrats are actually right when they claim that democracy is at stake in this year’s election because they are the ones who intend to end it. Just take it from Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who is prepared to unleash the “nuclear option” by destroying the filibuster, the sole remaining bulwark standing in the way of permanent one-party Democrat rule. Oozing with confidence that his party can win big in the elec…

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Schumer eyes locking in one-party rule if Dems win, will nuke filibuster

Just when Americans thought Democrats had run out of unpopular ideas to campaign on, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) dusted off an idea that, two years ago, he couldn’t even get his own party to support. In a press gaggle in Chicago, the New Yorker dropped more than a few bombshells — but none bigger than his renewed call to end the filibuster, an extreme idea that would radically remake the Senate as we know it. “We want to protec…

Schumer: Voting rights will be first priority in 2025 if Democrats control Congress

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