House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday gave lawmakers the weekend off, despite bipartisan calls for immediate congressional action on an emergency aid package for Ukraine. Even some of Mrs. Pelosi’s and Mr….
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Democrats hunt for new ways to twist filibuster, force passage of their election overhaul
Senate Democrats scrambled Tuesday in search of an alternative to change the filibuster without blowing it up after the conference fractured over a plan to use the “nuclear option.” The effort is particularly complicated since any change to…