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Let's say that when the new Senate comes in on Jan. 14, 1975, they just have a straight up majority vote to discontinue the filibuster. As far as a cause, I'm thinking of the general climate of reform, the remembrance that it was often used by pro-segregation Senators (then a fresher memory), and (one possible POD) the argument voiced more often aloud and with matter-of-fact confidence that the filibuster is afterall undemocratic and not really in keeping with an approach of majority rules, minority rights.

Now, on the WI side of the equation, the Democrats in 2009 would have had a comfortable working majority of 60 Senators to address the economic crisis, as well as health care reform.

And are there other times during the last forty years in which having no filibuster may have made a big difference?
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