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With this very simple graph on cloture voting, you can see how politicians have set about obstructing the business of the U.S. Senate — both parties do it! It is near-impossible to get big things done anymore. <\/p>\n
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With this very simple graph on cloture voting, you can see how politicians have set about obstructing the business of the U.S. Senate — both parties do it! It is near-impossible to get big things done anymore. https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:US_Senate_cloture_since_1917.png<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}