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

by Lisa MascaroAlan Fram
| May 30, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Minority Republicans used a Senate filibuster Friday to block a Democratic bill that would have launched a bipartisan probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. It was the first time under President Joe Biden that the GOP used the tactic to derail major legislation.

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