Jan 20, 2017 ... A little over three years ago, Senator Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor  and ... At the urging of Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrats had just voted  along ... Under the new rules, presidential nominees for all executive-branch ...  The rules for legislation were untouched, but the 60-vote threshold for ...
Apr 6, 2017 ... Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set a new precedent in the Senate to advance  ... "This will be the first, and last, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court justice,"  said ... nomination on a near party-line vote, leaving Republicans shy the ...  which allows any one senator to hold up a piece of legislation and ...
Apr 9, 2017 ... Republicans changed Senate rules to break a Democratic filibuster ... "We've  seen more filibusters on judicial nominees by the ... Senate Republicans filibuster  Obama court nominees more than all .... It remains in place for legislation. ... first  five years of Obama's presidency, the same total as the previous ...
May 9, 2014 ... Their [Republicans'] willingness to say no to everything — the fact that ... that  Senate Republicans have filibustered “500 pieces of legislation that ... Obama is  assuming every cloture motion can be counted as a filibuster. ... 133 successful  filibusters — meaning a final vote could not take place — since 2007.
Nov 21, 2013 ... Historic rule change means presidential nominees require only a ... This article is  over 5 years old ... Senate" but said something had to be done to repair the  legislative ... Three years ago we set out to make The Guardian sustainable by ...  But we have to maintain and build on that support for every year to ...
Says in the last five years "Senate Republicans have placed a filibuster on every piece of legislation and every nominee."