The Fate of the Filibuster

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🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As Democrats and Republicans haggled over how to share power in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, made one key demand: Do not touch the filibuster rule. Today, we explore the mechanics and history of the rule and look ahead at its fate.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.
0:02.4	This is The Daily.
0:06.0	Today.
0:07.0	That I should be the leader of this new Senate majority
0:11.0	is an awesome responsibility.
0:13.5	As Democrats and Republicans in the Senate
0:16.3	haggle over how to share power.
0:19.0	We have no choice,
0:21.0	but to try to work together.
0:23.5	In a chamber split 50 to 50.
0:26.5	So let us begin.
0:28.0	The Republican leader, Mitch McConnell,
0:30.5	made one unconditional demand.
0:33.0	If the talk of the entity on common ground is to have meaning.
0:37.0	Do not touch the filibuster rule.
0:40.0	Then I cannot imagine the Democratic leader
0:42.0	would rather hold up the power sharing agreement
0:44.5	than simply reaffirm that his side
0:48.0	won't be breaking the standing rule of the Senate.
0:52.0	A rule that many Democrats believe must be destroyed.
0:56.0	To get anything big done in the Biden era.
0:59.0	And many Republicans believe must be saved
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