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The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administration.

It’s nice to see the senate opposition functioning.

Edit: 18 hours of holding the senate floor, giving voice to the american people. Lots of tears as american suffering is read out loud for the congressional record. Testiment from Americans across the country. This is the voice of the people. Please click the link, share and watch. The media needs to know we care about the opposition more than we care about trump rambling on a plane about fort knox.

  • MimicJar@lemmy.world
    221·
    2 days ago

    Technically it isn’t a filibuster,

    Depending on how long he is able to go, he could disrupt Senate business on Tuesday, though his speech technically isn’t a filibuster — the chamber is currently in a limited period of debate time for Matthew Whitaker’s nomination as ambassador to NATO.

    Per https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/31/congress/cory-booker-talk-a-thon-00262482

    It just behaves as you would expect a filibuster to behave. The standard no-show threatening is still a thing you can do.

    • TronBronson@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      2 days ago

      idk where politico and news week are getting their definition of a filibuster, but talking for 24 hours to hold off a nomination vote is a filibuster to me. My community college education may have failed me but i interpret a 25 hour speech on the senate floor a filibuster.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 day ago

        I’ll be honest I assume it’s some parliamentary specifics. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a filibuster to me. Allegedly it isn’t, but AFAIK, it is. It’s what I expect one to look like. It behaves like one. So it is.

        • TronBronson@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          1 day ago

          By definition its a filibuster. I think everyone is saying its not a filibuster, because it can not be stopped through cloture. So under the senates procedures and protocols it cannot be voted down like a filibuster. Not that they have the votes anyway. And the rest are just undermining and don’t understand what a filibuster is. It’s their first time hearing about it and they are trusting news week to do their thinking.

          A filibuster is just a long speech or something to delay the legislative session. it can be used for a specific bill, or as they are using it now, it can be used to delay a nomination vote for 24 hours. RIP NATO.

        • TronBronson@lemmy.worldOP
          21·
          1 day ago

          Yes yes. English is hard. Words have 10 meanings and we also use idioms to really make it confusing.

          Thats not the meeting we’re discussing since its a senator obstructing a legislative body via a long speech which is procedurally allowed.