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Hayes Brown @HayesBrown

The idea that the Senate rules were built around — where the esteemed gentlemen of the Senate will just cordially decide to have a majority vote once debate is naturally exhausted — is not anywhere close to reality — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 10, 2022

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The filibuster is a mistake of the rewritten rules, which deleted the rule for “previous question,” a loophole exploited by the Southern slaveholding class and later the Dixiecrats. That is the history of the filibuster. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 10, 2022

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If Aaron Burr hadn’t screwed up the rules and John Calhoun hadn’t taken advantage of it, we’d have no filibuster as we know it. Any attempts to fix it have just made things worse/easier to use, so I have a hard time supporting even reforms over abolition of it at this point. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 10, 2022