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Topic: Senate filibuster
THEN · 2017-04-07
“we are united in our determination to preserve the ability of Members to engage in extended debate when bills are on the Senate floor.”
NOW · 2022-01-19
“If I must choose between a fundamental principle learned through five congressional civil rights pilgrimages spent with John Lewis that voting is a moral question or continue to hold to a rule, I will choose the former and embrace a change that is as narrow and temporary as possible and that will restore debate on this floor.”
Context: Sen. Coons co-led the 2017 joint letter (61 signers). In 2022 he backed a rules change he described as narrow and temporary, for voting-rights legislation.
