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After calls from within both
parties for filibuster reform,
"Members of the United States Senate
... agreed to do nothing meaningful to
reform the Senate filibuster rule that
prevents the Senate from acting on
almost anything of substance without
at least 60 votes*."
  -- [emphasis added]
 
* Not what was envisioned by the writers of the Constitution
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