Senator Durbin joins growing push to reform the filibuster
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Senator Durbin joins growing push to reform the filibuster

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois on Monday torched the legislative filibuster as a “weapon of mass obstruction” in a speech on the floor of the upper chamber, adding his name to the growing list of Democrats demanding elimination of—or, at the very least, significant changes to—the 60-vote rule standing in the way of a voting rights…

Senator Duckworth joins bipartisan effort to limit presidential war powers
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Senator Duckworth joins bipartisan effort to limit presidential war powers

Shortly after President Biden ordered a military strike in Syria, two leading Democrats openly criticized the move. Now there’s a bipartisan push to limit presidential war powers. “Offensive military action without congressional approval is not constitutional absent extraordinary circumstances,” Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said last week. Kaine is the Democratic Party’s former vice presidential nominee….