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the_watcher on Nov 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Landmark Senate Vote Limits Filibusters

They could do that, but there is also no reason that Republicans, should they take power, would just revert back again, and potentially go farther.

excitom on Nov 21, 2013 [–]

Exactly. There was always a "gentlemans' agreement" not to abuse the game, but that decorum has been abandoned.

dllthomas on Nov 21, 2013 | [–]

This is clearly the case. There is dispute over who abandoned what and when.

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