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.”
Quick civics lesson, there are two houses and they only have a “majority” in one. They need both.
The Senate doesn’t require the approval of the House of Representatives when making rule changes that only affect the Senate. Removing the filibuster is something the Senate can do unilaterally with a simple majority.
If they wanna pass new abortion protections, however, they will of course need both chambers.
Sure, but from the context I believe she is talking about suspending it for the abortion law, not just in general. I wish they would get rid of it altogether, or at least force them to actually filibuster it.
ah, i missed the “both chambers” bit