Pressure is growing to End the U.S. Senate Filibuster

Pressure is growing among President Joe Biden’s Democrats to end the filibuster, a long-standing Senate custom that requires a supermajority to advance most legislation in a chamber that in recent years has been closely divided and is now split 50/50 between the two parties.  As long as the filibuster exists, liberal Democrats say, Republicans in the chamber usually called  “the world’s greatest deliberative body” will be able to use it to block progress on their priorities, including addressing climate change, voting rights and immigration. Filibuster explained: What it means, How it works, its History Under Senate rules, a filibuster…