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Why couldn't the democrats get bills passed when they had control of the house and senate under Obama?
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∙ 11y ago
Unfortunately, the rules of the senate have changed over the past few years, such that the minority party (in this case the Republicans) can stop any piece of legislation or any proposal from getting an up-or-down vote by threatening a filibuster. Where years ago, filibusters were real (in other words, a senator had to remain on the floor of the senate for hours and hours, preventing a piece of legislation from being voted on), today, the rules only require a verbal agreement to filibuster; Republicans united to use this tactic and they used it a record number of times. Even though they still held a majority, the Democrats needed 60 votes to stop a filibuster, and they did not have that many; in past years, some Republican senators would cross the aisle and work together with Democrats, but now, the Republicans were united in opposing nearly every bill that the president wanted passed. Thus, the senate was unable to get anything done.
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