Washington-Republicans took control of the US Senate on Friday under the new leadership of John Thune from Southern Dakota, who promised to maintain the intact filibuster of the authority-60-voice threshold of the main provisions, which some democrats aimed at elimination.
Thune follows in the footsteps of the longest -acting leader of the GOP Senate, Mitcha McConnell of Kentucky, and takes the reins when the Republicans are preparing to control the Senate, home and the White House, when President Elek Donald Trump took office on January 20.
In his first opening remarks, as leader, Thune, he said that he would restore the upper chamber as a “place of discussion and meeting” because the body implements an aggressive plan for reviewing immigration and extending tax reductions in 2017 – not to mention that the government is actually financed, though several months, when ephemeral funds expire in March.
Republicans are Looking at the budget reconciliation process -Legislative maneuver, which allows the Senate to avoid a 60-voice Filibuster-to achieve as many political goals as possible, how much can be justified as part of the budget for one year. Democrats used reconciliation during a uniform government in the 117th Congress.
Despite this, Thune stuck in his remarks opening at the beginning of the 119th Congress that the Senate must remain “more stable, more thoughtful, more prudent.”
“Unfortunately, today there are many people who would like the Senate to turn into a copy of the House of Representatives,” said Thune on the floor.
“And this,” he continued, “is not what our founders intended or what our country needs. One of my priorities as a leader will be to ensure that the Senate will remain in the Senate. This means behavior of a legislative filibuster. “
Thune described the principle of the 60th as “the greatest impact on the behavior of the vision of the founders of the United States Senate.”
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley from Iów, who served in the Chamber since 1981, resumed The position of the President of the Senate Pro Tempore on Friday – the role he recently played in 2019–2021.
Senator Chuck Schumer from New York, currently the leader of the body minority, said on Friday that he is looking forward to working with Thune and wants to continue “reaching the transition”.
“I want to cooperate with the new republican leader to maintain this bilateral run in the new year. I do not expect that we will agree to everything and even many things – said Schumer. “But there are still opportunities to improve the life of the American people if we are ready to cooperate.”
New Senators
Ten new senators were sworn in on Friday, including several Republicans who reversed democratic places.
Among them was a republican senator David McCormick, who threw away a long -time democratic senator Pennsylvania Bob Casey; Senator Tim Sheehy, a republican who overturned the headquarters of the Montana Senate, previously run by Democrat Jon Tester; and the new senator GOP Bernie Moreno, who met a place from the long -term democratic democratic senator Ohio Sherrod Brown.
Governor of Western Virginia Jim Justice was not among the legislators who took the oath on Friday. Justice, a Republican who won the place of the independent Joe Manchina III, will remain the governor of the state until January 13, before he sets out to the Senate.
New democratic sense. Angela Alsobrooks from Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware went down in history on Friday as the first two black women who simultaneously served in the upper chamber.
Other newly sworn senators on Friday are Republicans of Jim Banks from Indiana and John Curtis from Utah, as well as Democrats of Elissa Slotkin from Michigan and Ruben Galle from Arizona.
Democratic meaning. Adam Schiff from California and Andy Kim from New Jersey took oaths in December.
Last updated 15:13, January 3, 2025
