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Reid came out for killing the filibuster in 2019, arguing that it had outlived its usefulness and was suppressing the popular will. “The legislative filibuster is gone,” he told me that summer.
Harry Reid, the pugnacious Nevada Democrat and former Senate majority leader who died Tuesday at age 82, never regretted having gone nuclear. In 2013, Reid ended the filibuster — the rule that ...
Reid, who died Tuesday at 82, used the “nuclear option” as Majority Leader and later wrote about his wish to abolish the filibuster in all its forms As friends, family and colleagues remember ...
Harry Reid, who died Tuesday, was right to “go nuclear” in ending the Senate filibuster for most presidential nominees, including for lower court judgeships. That action in 2013 could be ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Adam Jentleson, who served as the deputy chief of staff to Sen. Harry Reid, about the impact President Biden's support of changing Senate rules has on the filibuster.
Harry Reid, who died in Nevada, used the "nuclear option" on the filibuster rule in 2013. Democrats should finish killing it to pass voting rights.
Former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday called for an end to the legislative filibuster, asserting that removing the procedure would help end the “era of obstruction and inaction ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday called for abolishing the legislative filibuster, citing unprecedented gridlock in the Senate. In a New York Times op-ed, the former Democratic ...
Harry Reid: The Filibuster Is Suffocating the Will of the American People . To save our country’s future, Democrats must abolish this arcane Senate rule. Aug. 12, 2019.
SENATE Warner regrets Harry Reid's filibuster change: 'I wish we wouldn't even have started this' Virginia senator is open to exempting voting rights legislation from the filibuster ...
If Harry Reid decides to use the Senate's "reconciliation" process to ram health care legislation through his chamber and crush a filibuster, then he'll have to reconcile something else: his ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shocked and infuriated many of his fellow Democrats on Thursday when he backed away from his pledge to put an end to the curse of the filibuster. Minority ...