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"Filibuster Debate Tears at Biden and Senate, With Long-Term Consequences" (Commentary by Richard Arenberg)

Interim Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, and Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science Richard Arenberg offered commentary in this article, "I acknowledge, and have for years, that the filibuster has been abused...I just don’t think the solution is getting rid of it. If the problem is polarization—the tendency of one party to grab the keys to the bulldozers,” then getting rid of the filibuster is “just going to make it worse.”

March 22, 2021 The Wall Street Journal

Interim Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, and Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science Richard Arenberg offered commentary in this article, "I acknowledge, and have for years, that the filibuster has been abused...I just don’t think the solution is getting rid of it. If the problem is polarization—the tendency of one party to grab the keys to the bulldozers,” then getting rid of the filibuster is “just going to make it worse.”

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