Senate Democrats Embrace Filibuster

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  April 8th at 11:30 AM  | 

In the budget battle that threatens to shut down government, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has embraced the filibuster as a tool to preserve government funding for Planned Parenthood. This is the same Senator Schumer who, as recently as January, had denounced the filibuster as a tool to “grind the Senate to a halt.”