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Many of the significant bills in the Wikipedia article are budgetary bills, which are not subject to the Senate filibuster. I suspect the current Congress has
by winter_blue 3y ago
Many of the significant bills in the Wikipedia article are budgetary bills, which are not subject to the Senate filibuster.
I suspect the current Congress has not passed any meaningful non-budgetary legislation.
Some of the most important pending bills include restoring the Voting Rights Act (which was crippled by the conservative wing of the Supreme Court in the Shelby County v. Holder decision). That bill is still being blocked by the Republican party. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Voting_Rights_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Voting_Rights_Act
The Voting Rights Act used to be a bill that was renewed with bipartisan support, but once the Republican party realized that the invalidation of this bill made it easier to suppress minority votes in red states, they've been opposed to its renewal.
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