As Biden Tells Congress to Pass Pro-Democracy Bills 'Right Away,' Progressives Say: The Filibuster Must Go
In his first nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, President Joe Biden called on lawmakers to urgently pass voting rights legislation, labor reform, a $15 federal minimum wage, and other popular bills that have been stymied by a Senate rule not mentioned in the president’s speech: the legislative filibuster. “If …