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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (774227)	3/11/2014 7:18:34 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571903

The filibuster, once rare, has become a routine tool for partisan politicking. Between 1917 and 1970, only 58 motions for cloture were filed in the Senate (a decent proxy for filibuster threats), or about one per year. That number grew to more than 19 per year on average between 1971 and 1992 before doubling to 43 per year from 1993 through 2012. For the past three years, there has been nearly one filibuster per day that the Senate was in session. Keep in mind that these numbers include only those filibusters that the majority tried to block; the actual number of threatened filibusters is higher. Notice too, in the graph below, how Republicans have driven the filibuster arms-race: the number of motions filed tend to ratchet up in years when the minority party is Republican and level off when it is Democratic. tcf.org