{"id":953849,"date":"2023-01-12T06:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=271096"},"modified":"2023-01-12T06:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:29:31","slug":"its-time-to-abolish-the-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/12\/its-time-to-abolish-the-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Abolish the Filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The filibuster has proved more pernicious to democracy than any other procedural rule of Congress. It\u2019s time for it to go. These claims may seem excessive in view of the real accomplishments of the 117th Congress, e.g., bills supporting a major upgrade of the nation\u2019s infrastructure as well as substantive action in combating climate change.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/12\/its-time-to-abolish-the-filibuster\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/12\/its-time-to-abolish-the-filibuster\/\">It\u2019s Time to Abolish the Filibuster<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/12\/its-time-to-abolish-the-filibuster\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The filibuster has proved more pernicious to democracy than any other procedural rule of Congress. It\u2019s time for it to go. These claims may seem excessive in view of the real accomplishments of the 117th Congress, e.g., bills supporting a major upgrade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953850,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953849\/revisions\/953850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}