"TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER NOW, END THE RIDICULOUS SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY, AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PASS EVERY WONDERFUL REPUBLICAN POLICY THAT WE HAVE DREAMT OF, FOR YEARS, BUT NEVER GOTTEN. WE WILL BE THE PARTY THAT CANNOT BE BEATEN THE SMART PARTY!!!"
"Recall what probably would have passed in the Biden years without the filibuster check. Bernie Sanders's $17-an-hour national minimum wage. All of the Biden Build Back Better plan, with its huge tax increases and cradle-to-grave entitlement programs. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's bill to restructure the Supreme Court."
"The filibuster rule is often frustrating, but its virtue is that it serves as a check on passing extreme laws with narrow majorities. It also gives the minority party a voice when it controls neither House of Congress nor the White House. It forces compromise. It also reduces the chances of a ping-pong effect of passage, repeal, and passage again that leads to economic and legal uncertainty, concluded the editorial."
A call to eliminate the filibuster urged immediate termination to enact a broad Republican agenda. Critics warned that ending the filibuster would enable narrow-majority enactment of extreme policies and increase instability. Examples of measures that could pass without the filibuster included a $17 federal minimum wage, the Build Back Better plan with major tax increases and entitlement expansions, Supreme Court restructuring, nationalized election law, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C., the PRO Act, and a national law codifying Roe v. Wade. The filibuster functions as a check on extreme laws, preserves minority input, forces compromise, and reduces policy whiplash and legal uncertainty.
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