Sen. Cory Booker has revived the debate over whether the existence of the filibuster actually prevented Obamacare from being repealed in 2017.
As liberals push Democrats to rally around a sweeping policy agenda, they are also confronting the reality that as long as there is a 60-vote threshold for passing legislation in the U.S. Senate, their transformational ideas such as socializing the health insurance system and imposing the Green New Deal will never become reality.
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