Tuesday, March 30, 2021

The problem with the GOP's hypocrisy complaints about the filibuster

... By all three measures, obstructionism that was once rare has been made routine. When Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1973, there were 44 cloture motions filed in the Senate during its two-year session -- a relatively high total by the historical standards of the time. By the 1993-1994 Congress, as Republicans desperately tried to block Bill Clinton's agenda, that number had nearly doubled, growing to 80. In the 2007-2008 Congress, when Mitch McConnell scrambled to stand in the way of a new Democratic Congress, the tally reached 139...


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