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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Filibuster
Unofficial in law,
use of this tool increasing,
disrupts Senate course.
Image from Democracydocket.com
More information on the Filibuster:
"When we lost that balance between exhausting debate and cloture, cloture was converted from an occasional tool for avoiding gridlock into a de facto supermajority requirement on everything, creating massive gridlock. Both sides have learned that the majority, not the minority, pays the political price when the Senate is gridlocked. In the 58 years from the creation of cloture in 1917 through the rules change in March 1975, there were 131 cloture votes. In the 46 years that followed, through late 2021, there were 2,312. At the same time, the number of amendments has cratered. If you are an institutionalist, you cannot help but be appalled at what has become of this institution."
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