EXPLAINER: What's the Senate filibuster and why change it? BY ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press May 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during the signing ceremony of the COVID-19 Hate Crime Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 19. 2021.Jose Luis Magana/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber to begin the work week at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, May 24, 2021. The House has already voted to approve an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection but the measure faces an uncertain fate in the evenly divided Senate where Republican leader Mitch McConnell is opposed and former President Donald Trump is demanding the effort be quashed.J. Scott Applewhite/APShow MoreShow Less