Timeline for Even if Democrats have control of the Senate, won't new legislation just be blocked with a filibuster?
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| Sep 29, 2021 at 11:41 | history | edited | Rick Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2021 at 0:02 | comment | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | Also consider that Senate Republicans turned out (by and large) not the most fervent Trump supporters, especially in the matter of his election fraud claims. By your "hardball" theory, they could have opposed the election results for days, objecting to every single state, and taking 2hrs of debates for each, but did practically none of that (except for AZ). | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 23:31 | answer | added | Joe W | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 9:44 | vote | accept | mhdadk | ||
| Jan 7, 2021 at 20:35 | answer | added | jamesqf | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 14:14 | comment | added | Zibbobz | Turn this question around and ask yourself - how was any legislation able to get passed when there was Republican control of the senate? | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 12:29 | comment | added | David Hammen | One thing that is not mentioned in any of the answers is that Presidential nominations for cabinet level and judiciary positions do not require a 3/5 majority, thanks to uses of the nuclear option in 2013 by the Democrats and in 2017 by the Republicans. | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 1:16 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 7, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1346969882861203456 | ||
| Jan 6, 2021 at 20:53 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 18:32 | answer | added | user102008 | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 17:57 | answer | added | Damila | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 17:32 | answer | added | phoog | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 17:28 | answer | added | Thegs | timeline score: 44 | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 17:14 | history | edited | Rick Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 17:10 | history | asked | mhdadk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |