Leader of the Senate majority Mitch McConnell
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The two Senate leaders met to discuss how to share power in a uniformly divided Senate. According to Schumer, they talked about “many issues” but did not reach an agreement.
The talks have sparked a 60-vote legislative filibuster, which could drag on negotiations for several days.
McConnell is pushing to use the power-sharing agreement to help protect the filibuster amid calls by progressives to remove the hurdle to help overcome democratic legislative priorities.
McConnell spokesman Doug Andres said during Tuesday’s meeting, the Republican Party leader “expressed his long-held view that crucial, long-standing, bipartisan Senate rules regarding legislative filibuster remain intact, specifically during the participation of the power in the following two years “.
“Discussions on all aspects of the power-sharing agreement will continue over the next few days,” Andres said.
But McConnell’s decision to drop the filibuster in the discussion over how to organize a divided Senate sparked fierce setbacks from outside groups, urging Democrats to reject the Republican Party leader’s gambit.
“Senator McConnell knows that the filibuster is the best weapon he has to control the Senate from the minority and prevent Democrats from fulfilling the promises they made to voters, which is why he is so desperate to keep it,” he said. say Fix Our Senate, a coalition of outside groups that support filibuster reduction.
Democrats currently do not have the votes in the caucus to eliminate the filibuster. Several have shown skepticism to get rid of it, and the senator. Joe Manchin
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Democrats will only have a 50-seat majority, as incoming vice president Kamala Harris
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McConnell indicated in a letter to the Senate governing committee that he wanted to use negotiations with Schumer on how to organize the Senate to reach an agreement on the future of the filibuster.
“I think it’s the right time to address this issue before the passions of one particular topic or another emerge,” McConnell wrote.
Without an agreement between McConnell and Schumer, the Senate is expected to get stuck until the two leaders resolve it, including Republicans who still have a majority on some committees, though Schumer will become the Senate’s majority leader on Wednesday after three new Democratic Senators and Harris are sworn in.
The eventual agreement is expected to largely reflect a 2001 power-sharing agreement in which the White House party technically had a majority in the Senate. Under that agreement, Democrats would also chair the committees, but legislation and nominations that get a tie on the committee could still be sent to the floor.
A Schumer spokesman said Tuesday night that they held a “substantive conversation” and “advanced” on issues such as the president-elect’s confirmation. Joe Biden
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“In an organizational resolution, leader Schumer expressed that the fairest, most reasonable and easiest way is to adopt the 2001 bipartisan agreement without foreign changes by either party,” the spokesman said.