Originally published at: My Best Understanding of the Current Senate State of Play - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Here’s my best read of where things stand right now up in the Senate. There does seem to have been some real movement overnight. A lot of senators held virtual townhalls or other meetings where they interacted with voters last night. A number moved over into explicitly saying that will vote against cloture. That’s a…
FYI, “clôture” is a French word that means “fence” in English. If you think of how it’s being used here, you can imagine it as a “barrier” holding a bill in place, so dropping the barrier means letting the bill move on…