Page 927 - Threshold News Today

Changing the rules in the senate to eliminate the 60 vote threshold for holding a vote on voting rights legislation. this would be a onetime change of the senate rules, just for this one piece of legislation. we are going to monitor the situation on the senate floor, as it develops, especially when it gets that dramatic moment of calling for that vote. we will be keeping an eye on the senate floor. also today, in a 150-page legal brief, filed in court, in response to donald trumps attempt to eva...

Leader chuck schumer is planning to use this new legislative vehicle from the house in a special way that will allow the senate to begin debate on voting rights without having to reach a 60-vote threshold just to begin that debate. earlier today chuck schumer said this: >> were having a lot of serious long and intense meetings with senators sinema and manchin. i wouldnt want to delude anybody to think this is easy but were trying to come to a place where 50 senators can support two bills, the fr...

State? >> arizona is a very swingy state and i was able to get sinema over to the top was to go to the senate was to the latina vote. and rachel, we did not make this decision lightly. we had conference calls and we spoke to individuals, we engaged and we engage with senator sinema we are very clear on the day of the vote but we needed her to do. we had her back when she needed as, the latino community, and she demonstrated that even though arizona was ground zero for the big lie, the big audit ...

Climate bill known as the build back better agenda here in washington that, of course, was stalled after senator manchin said in december that he could not support it as it stood right then. this week, of course, we saw what happened with that forceful call by president biden to get voting rights legislation passed by creating an exception to the filibuster. that is something that both senator manchin and senator sinema of arizona said they would the not be supporting to change the 60-vote thres...

Do so. the senate democratic caucus met last night. essentially, schumer laid out his plan. theyre going to try to push this package forward. republicans will likely reject the bill, as they have three other times in the past. then from there, theyre going to try to bypass the senate filibuster and the 60-vote threshold, as well as implement a talking filibuster just for this one time, in order to pass the voting rights legislation. that effort is going to fail because senator sinema and joe man...

That we all know why the filibuster has been used historically. >> you have seen senators change their mind about this senate rule on a 60 vote threshold. certainly over the last several years. and then at a very high rate of speed over the last year, you have seen joe biden change his mind. after his 36 years in the senate. to say no, this rule has to be changed and has to be changed at minimum for voting rights and other senators saying it should be eliminated completely for all legislation. a...

Eliminated the threshold for supreme court nominees. these short-sided actions by both parties have led to our current american judiciary and supreme court, which as i stand here today is considering questions regarding fundamental rights americans have had for decades. >> kirsten cinema on the floor, says this will not contain all the flaws of the system, making it very clear she will not support a change in the philly bifrt move, within an hour of the president of the united states making that...

As salma was saying, he could resign. if found he did lie to parliament, the convention is he would have to go. i think it would be increasingly untenable for him to remain. theres also the option that he is booted out by his party if the threshold of these no confidence letters is reached. that would be about 54 of his own mps writing letters to the 1922 committee of rank and file members of the conservative party. now, that looks more and more plausible as the day goes on. when i was speaking ...

With neil cavuto talking about vladimir putin who he says senses weakness in the u.s. the "wall street journal" writing this globalization was supposed to prevent war, russia made be showing the opposite. vladimir putin may be betting the west isnt willing to pay the economic price to prevent a russian move on ukraine and an increasingly interconnected world. back with the panel, guy, why do you think people at home should care? >> guy: well, because there could be a war, right? and when there i...

New threshold, 850,000 total deaths so far during this pandemic in the united states alone. officials are hoping to combat the rise of infections by making testing more available. as of saturday americans are able to get reimbursed with home tests. now beijing has reported its first case of the omicron variant less than three weeks before that city hosts the winter olympics. authorities have sealed off the neighborhood where the case was found and have begun mass testing in the area. the infec...