Harry Reid calls for end to filibuster, says 2020 contenders should support abolishing it

Posted on AllSides August 13th, 2019
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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this week called for an end to the legislative filibuster in the U.S. Senate and said Democrats vying for the White House should support eliminating it as well.

Mr. Reid said the Senate today has become “an unworkable legislative graveyard.”

“Republicans over the past decade — knowing their policies are unpopular and that obstruction benefits them politically — perfected and increased the gratuitous use of the filibuster,” he wrote in a piece in The New York Times published on Monday.

Mr. Reid called on...

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