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US President Joe Biden may have only two years to get things doneBy Adam Jentleson, New York Times
Last Updated: Jan 21, 2021, 10:17 AM IST
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The harsh reality is that when the dust settles on the chaos and violence, Republican senators will have the same powerful incentives to deny Mr. Biden the 10 or so votes he will need, in addition to all 50 Democrats, to pass most bills in the Senate.
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Bumping Senator Mitch McConnell to the minority increases Joe Biden’s odds of passing his agenda, but there is a catch.
Democrats must kill the filibuster and make the Senate great again.
By Adam Jentleson
Mr. Jentleson is the author of “Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.”
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Under Mitch McConnell as minority leader, Senate Republicans used the filibuster to block President Barack Obama’s agenda. Credit.Damon Winter/The New York Times
Bumping Senator Mitch McConnell to the minority increases Joe Biden’s odds of passing his agenda, but there is a catch.
In the Senate in recent decades, the filibuster has morphed from the long-winded speeches portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” into a silent but lethal tool that lets any one senator raise the threshold for passing bills from a simple majority (where the framers set it) to a supermajority of 60 votes.
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