on September 27."The reason is this: we have seen under Mitch McConnell the destruction and the denigration of the United States Senate."
David Bateman is associate professor at Cornell University's Department of Government. He believes it will be difficult for Democrats to abolish the filibuster even if they want to. "What does change is that the Democrats now have a real opportunity to use some of the procedural exceptions to the filibuster, most notably reconciliation. This ironically will make it tougher to find issues that conservative Democrats might find important enough to reform the filibuster, since a lot of issues important to them could be included in reconciliation bills. What we might see instead of filibuster reform is a push to expand what can be done through reconciliation.
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