Sen Warren Proposes to End Filibuster in Senate

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Liz Goodwin, Here’s how Elizabeth Warren is trying to outmaneuver Bernie Sanders. Boston Globe, Mar 6, 2019 (front-page top report).
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news ... TXQ85x1O/story.html

the first four paragraphs:

"NEW YORK — Senator Elizabeth Warren lobbed another policy grenade into the Democratic primary Friday [Mar 5], announcing she supports drastically changing the Senate by eliminating its legendary filibuster to give her party a better chance of implementing its ambitious agenda.

"The move puts her campaign rivals on the spot to explain how they would pass their own ambitious legislative priorities if the Senate keeps its rule in place requiring a 60-vote supermajority to advance most bills.

"Warren's announcement allows her to swerve to the left of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in a meaningful way at a time when she's straggling far behind him in early polls and grass-roots fund-raising.

"Sanders, who popularized proposals like free college and Medicare for All among Democrats during his 2016 run for president, has been reluctant to support scrapping the filibuster. That raises questions about how he would be able to pass his sweeping proposals into law should he become president, given Democrats are extremely unlikely to have 60 seats in the Senate.

Note:
(a) There is no need to read the rest, which is, anyway, all you can read without paying.
(b) filibuster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
(nuclear option in US senate)