A new study shows that the main argument in defense of the filibuster doesn't hold up. Shocker.
says the data does not bear out that claim. According to a working paper from Shu Fu, a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Chicago, and William Howell, the chair of the political science department at the University of Chicago, historical data shows that the filibuster largely has no effect on debate — and to the extent that it does, it appears toThe filibuster has not even fulfilled its vaunted role as a stimulator for more robust debate and discussion.
Fu and Howell’s study involves taking a few different measures of senate debate, including the total volume of words that are said by each lawmaker in a congressional session, debate about judicial nominees, and how much time is spent discussing and debating the formation of landmark laws like Obamacare.
“When you look at 2007, and McConnell's interest in deploying the filibuster in all manner of policy domains …. it was not because those who were using the filibuster were particularly interested in scrutinizing the merits of policy changes to a greater extent, it's because they wanted to block policy change,” Howell said. “What they wanted to do was grind things to a halt.”
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