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Senate Republicans Call for Hearing on Border Crisis

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Top Senate Republicans on Thursday called for Democrats to hold a public hearing on the border crisis and question Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “While we may not agree on the causes of or the solutions to this crisis, we believe it is vitally important for the Senate Judiciary Committee to exercise its oversight authority …

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Durbin Says Senate Should Consider Scrapping Filibuster

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Amid heated debate about doing away with the Senate’s filibuster rule, a proposal so contentious it has been dubbed the “nuclear option,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Democrats should consider abolishing the filibuster if Republicans use it to thwart the Democrats’ priority legislation. Progressives have been pushing to …

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