Sinema Defends Filibuster Support In New Op-Ed

From an op-ed published by the Washington Post:

I will not support an action that damages our democracy because someone else did so previously or might do so in the future.

I do not accept a new standard by which important legislation can only pass on party-line votes — and when my party is again in the Senate minority, I will work just as hard to preserve the right to shape legislation.

Instability, partisanship and tribalism continue to infect our politics. The solution, however, is not to continue weakening our democracy’s guardrails. If we eliminate the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, we will lose much more than we gain.

Read the full op-ed.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema: Abolishing filibuster would weaken “democracy’s guardrails” https://t.co/6bQ5fIVNub

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