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How does that happen anyway. Why does the party with the majority allow a filibuster to happen without an actual speech?
by graeme 4y ago
How does that happen anyway. Why does the party with the majority allow a filibuster to happen without an actual speech?
- roywiggins 4y agoThe modern ("two-track") system was designed to be less disruptive to the Senate overall because it allows votes to happen on other, non-controversial bills while the filibuster is ongoing.
- graeme 4y agoThanks. Seems it was put in place in the 1970s after the filibuster of a civil rights bill. Still think they should make someone talk somewhere to keep the filibuster going. Cure seems worse than disease. Doubt they expected routine filibusters