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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, pictured in 2007, limited the use of the filibuster in 2013 — and urged Democrats to end it altogether a few months before he died Tuesday at 82.
Reid came out for killing the filibuster in 2019, arguing that it had outlived its usefulness and was suppressing the popular will. “The legislative filibuster is gone,” he told me that summer.
Harry Reid and the Filibuster: How One Facet of the Late Senator's Legacy Remains More Relevant Than Ever. Reid, who died Tuesday at 82, ...
Harry Reid, who died Tuesday, was right to “go nuclear” in ending the Senate filibuster for most presidential nominees, including for lower court judgeships. That action in 2013 could be ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Adam Jentleson, who served as the deputy chief of staff to Sen. Harry Reid, about the impact President Biden's support of changing Senate rules has on the filibuster.
Former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday called for an end to the legislative filibuster, asserting that removing the procedure would help end the “era of obstruction and inaction ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday called for abolishing the legislative filibuster, citing unprecedented gridlock in the Senate. In a New York Times op-ed, the former Democratic ...
Harry Reid, who died in Nevada, used the "nuclear option" on the filibuster rule in 2013. Democrats should finish killing it to pass voting rights.
Harry Reid: The Filibuster Is Suffocating the Will of the American People . To save our country’s future, Democrats must abolish this arcane Senate rule. Aug. 12, 2019.
That said, the filibuster has been abused in recent years. The solution is to mend it, not to end it. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is offering mostly reasonable reforms.
SENATE Warner regrets Harry Reid's filibuster change: 'I wish we wouldn't even have started this' Virginia senator is open to exempting voting rights legislation from the filibuster ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shocked and infuriated many of his fellow Democrats on Thursday when he backed away from his pledge to put an end to the curse of the filibuster. Minority ...