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The Not-So-Uncertain Future of the Filibuster
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Ted Cruz has a theory.
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Is the legislative filibuster doomed? Ted Cruz thinks so, and the Washington Examiner's Philip Klein agrees.
We don't have to take too seriously Cruz's farcical claim that "There is nothing in the history of the Senate remotely like what we’re facing right now, which is the filibuster being used on everything." Of course, that was the case for the first six years of Barack Obama's presidency, when Democrats had the majority in the Senate. Indeed, virtually all major legislation has been filibustered since 1993, when Republicans reacted to Bill Clinton's presidency by ratcheting up the filibuster wars.