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EXPLAINER: What's the Senate filibuster and why change it?

by Lisa MascaroAlan Fram
| May 27, 2021 12:39 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are poised to use a filibuster to derail Democrats’ effort to launch a bipartisan probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The showdown will be the first vote this year when the GOP has used the delaying tactic to try killing major legislation.

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