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"you can feel the institution sort of reaching for the ability to pass things on a majority rule basis. & instead of going directly at the filibuster, they’re taking this detour through reconciliation ...it’s going to lead to extremely poor policy design"

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"Biden’s big rescue package is ... going through budget reconciliation because it cannot get 10 Republican votes in the Senate. And so you are already seeing things get carved out of it that are important."
~@ezraklein

#EndTheFilibuster
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"The solutions, in a lot of cases, are right there. They often exist in legislative text. They’ve been road tested by experts. There’s not really a lot of controversy over what the solution should be. It’s just impossible to get them through the Senate."

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"It’s totally bizarre to me to say we want to keep the 60-vote threshold, but obviously, that’s not working, ... So we’re going to do this dumb thing and abuse another rule in a way that creates worse legislation instead."
~@ezraklein

#EndTheFilibuster
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