They initially had seven! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820%E2...

Doesn't matter if there is rule, as long as the House is of the opinion that only they can originate a CR, there is not really anything the Senate can do, the House can just decline to consider it.

They can work on other nominations (or legislative business) while waiting for the cloture motions to 'ripen', though, so it's not quite the same. - But even if you just post-cloture debate time, this takes 60 hours which is the same as 30 individual nominations, so they're not winning much.

Why do they have to do the reconsideration stuff? Couldn't Thune have made the point of order before the first vote? Or after the vote when the Chair said that the motion isn't agreed to because it doesn't have 60 votes?

This motion will be debated in the Lords today, they are very close to running out of letters...

(or until they have the result they want.)

They always let the votes run significantly longer than the scheduled time (The Chair has discretion to let it run as long as they want and they basically never close it before everyone has voted that wants to vote.)

And now some Senators are speaking "on" the budget resolution - presumably this is just different journalists writing the updates that have a different style (?)

Is he really planning to ignore Luna's motion completely? Might be that he is just making up an additional House rule that legislative days on which no business is conducted (or during 'district work periods') don't count - so in his mind the 'first' day that counts would be Monday.

I think the argument against it being a filibuster is that his intention wasn't "to disrupt a particular thing", his intention was to interrupt the Senate procedure in general to make a point.

Wouldn't the resolution just be tabled by the Republican Majority without debate? Chances to get the resolution agreed to might increase if they try to publicly put pressure on first.

What kind of greater restraints does the UK have?

If that is the goal, they could just allow the vote on the bill be scheduled by UC.

And then afterwards he complained that it got too late and the Senate was inefficient (rather than speeding things up himself by reading through the stuff he finds boring faster...)

It makes no difference in practice (Not that she'd done lots of work between 1 and 11.30am today.) and he gets to go to bed early, I'd also be happy with that.

How much time did they actually gain by this?