and change the rules so that invoking cloture against a filibuster only required 51 votes.

do whatever it takes. Now I am even more dpressed.

filibuster. With 48 senators available, including the 2 independents (Sanders, King), that's 12 senators/day or roughly 2 hrs/senator.

control of the senate in 2018 or 202

so honorable Americans need to be prepared to see the republicans degenerate further into the depths of greed, power-lust, deceit and betrayal of honesty, responsibility, and American democracy.

republicans just cannot seem to muster even a smidgen of honor.

Which is why there is a Sept. 30 deadline.

That's known as a "talking" filibuster, which is the original filibuster. No one can get rid of that.

The other filibuster is known as the "legislative" filibuster. No one talks, it's just announced that a bill will need a cloture vote of 60 members voting to cut off debate before the bill can advance. This is the filibuster that McConnell could get rid of.

The filibuster would still be available if there were any other bill being brought up before Oct. 1--but of course there isn't, nor would there be time to take up anything else.

to use the reconciliation procedure, which requires just 51 votes and can't be derailed by filibuster.