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Filibuster Fight: The Senate rule that keeps changing over time

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Carrie Dann looks at how the filibuster has evolved, from an unwritten rule to a blocking tactic that has been used at historically high rates.

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0:00.0

Hey there, Carrie Dan here. Welcome to the Chuck Todd cast. As the 5050 Senate still

0:08.7

tries to negotiate a power sharing agreement between Democrats and Republicans, one of

0:14.0

the biggest sticking points is going to be whether the filibuster will survive. We're

0:19.5

going to get right into that in a second with our number of the week. But first, here's

0:25.1

Chuck with some thoughts from Sunday.

0:28.0

Hello, I'm Chuck Todd and I just got off the meat the press set. Actually, I should be

0:32.3

more accurate than that. I'm still on the meat the press set, but we just turned the

0:35.6

TV cameras off. It's brand new set for what it's worth. And if you want to see some of the

0:40.0

behind the scenes photos, please go check out our Instagram page. It is a really cool

0:45.6

set with a lot of the modern features you want in today's broadcasting world. But as

0:51.0

you know, this week we're officially welcoming the lid team to the Toddcast feed. It's very

0:55.6

exciting to reunite the political unit this way. I'm going to turn things over to Carrie

0:58.8

Dan in a minute. But I wanted to quickly share my quick impressions of what I thought

1:02.6

the top news was for this Sunday show. Here's a few things that I learned from meat the

1:07.3

press today. We can start with what we learned from Ron Claim and the Biden administration.

1:12.0

It is clear that they're not ready to start even threatening single party focus when

1:17.7

it comes to getting their COVID relief bill passed. They seem intent on getting it out

1:23.3

there that they want to try to find a Republican governing coalition, which of course is good

1:27.6

politics for Joe Biden. The question is how much how much leeway or congressional Democrats

1:33.2

going to give? How much patience do congressional Democrats have? Speaker Pelosi, she doesn't

1:38.0

have much right now two weeks. And here's a real question. What happens in the next two

1:42.1

weeks before the start of the impeachment trial? Are they able to actually start a process

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