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Warren: Democrats ‘will suspend the filibuster’ to codify Roe v. Wade (thehill.com)

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Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House.

“We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe v. Wade,” Warren said on ABC’s “The View.”

She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe v. Wade law of the land again in America.”

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 63 points 5 months ago

I'm once again going to steal these comments from one I had saved a month ago, penned by @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world :

Since 1981 Democrats have had control of the Presidency and Congress a whopping 4 years. One 2 year period under Clinton and one under Obama. That’s without factoring in the ability to fillibuster in the Senate. In over 40 years they’ve only had control 10% of the time.

and

That period of filibuster-proof control during Obama’s term is why we have the ACA. It was ~70 days and they passed the largest healthcare overhaul in generations.

Sounds like they were a little busy with the ACA.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 22 points 5 months ago

Sounds like they were a little busy with the ACA.

Ive said this fairly recently, it's disgusting that our only major "achievement" in the last 40 years is a fucking REPUBLICAN markets based "solution."

"We" didn't even get to have what we wanted, we just have a watered down Romneycare program... Even when Republicans aren't in control they're in control...

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

And the Republicans still tried to kill it.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Man, you really don't remember what it was like if you don't realize just how substantive the ACA was. I'm not saying that the ACA is great, but it is so much better than what we used to have.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago

Something is always better than nothing, I was just lamenting the fact that even when we have full control we still have to cater to what Republicans want and don't get what we want.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

A really good point. People upset that democrats don't do anything when we have power, it's because republicans are bad faith actors hell bent on fighting any and all progress, but especially when that progress could be attributed to democrats. Their contribution to governance can be surmised as cutting off their own nose to spite their face.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Republicans had full control and failed to kill the ACA, so that's extra salt for that wound 😆

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