It looks like the vote to force the rail workers back to work will get at least 70+ votes. No filibuster or parliamentarian.
[edit] 80 votes at the moment, 80-15
It looks like the vote to force the rail workers back to work will get at least 70+ votes. No filibuster or parliamentarian.
[edit] 80 votes at the moment, 80-15
Also, the "60-vote threshold" isn't real. 60 votes is what you need to break a filibuster. There was no filibuster. I'm pretty sure there hasn't been in years.
used to be you had to actually keep speaking to do a filibuster. Strom Thurmond talked for 25 hour straight to try stop the civil rights act, even pissed in a bucket on the Senate floor so he could keep talking. Now they are such fucking cowards, they just have to "declare" a fillibuster and that's that, unlimited stalling. If I was a lib I'd just revoke that, make these old fucks try to talk for 30 hours about how much they hate minorities without having a heart attack. you aren't even getting rid of the stupid thing so you'd think it would be easy to do, but everyone there just wants to collect donor money and do as little work as possible
There's something to be said here about they're inability to relate to or actually do physical work. Their whole world is in the mind, unencumbered by any physical reality or experience. They have no value, in their own lives, for actually having the ability to physically act on the world. They only care about words and bullshit.
There was a threat to filibuster, which is all filibusters really are now.
Would have been entertaining to watch the GOP parade around for the next three weeks arguing against sick leave for rail workers. But then the Senate would be logjammed and Biden wouldn't have an opportunity to expedite more military funding for Ukraine. Nobody wants that.