Filibuster

The senate filibuster rule was to be used in extraordinary situations but over the years that changed and it became a tool used more for political reasons. Trump tweeted that he may ask the senate to get rid of the filibuster. Here is some history. The filibuster has been used 1,300 times since 1917. However, the vast majority of those filibusters have taken place in recent years. Filibuster use began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. Even so, there still had only been a grand total of 413 Senate filibusters by 1990. Over the last 12 years, however, the filibuster was used nearly 600 times! And since 2004 it has been used another 350 times. It started out as a reasonable use of power but given enough rope?