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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.”

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    63·
    4 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·
      4 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…

    • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 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.