{"id":20415,"date":"2026-03-23T02:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/manchin-urges-democrats-to-stand-up-to-senate-gop-amid-push-to-nix-filibuster\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:22:07","slug":"manchin-urges-democrats-to-stand-up-to-senate-gop-amid-push-to-nix-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/manchin-urges-democrats-to-stand-up-to-senate-gop-amid-push-to-nix-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin urges Democrats to &#8216;stand up&#8217; to Senate GOP amid push to nix filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) on Sunday said it was time to &ldquo;stand up&rdquo; to Senate Republicans who seek to abolish the filibuster.&nbsp; The filibuster, unique to the Senate, is more than 200 years old. The rule allows for debate until 60 votes are gathered to invoke cloture and end debate&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5795840-manchin-defends-filibuster-republicans\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) on Sunday said it was time to &ldquo;stand up&rdquo; to Senate Republicans who seek to abolish the filibuster.&nbsp; The filibuster, unique to the Senate, is more than 200 years old. The rule allows for debate until 60 votes are gathered to invoke cloture and end debate&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}