The days of the filibuster, which has played a starring role in the bitter and escalating partisan battles of the last several decades, are numbered. It isn’t a matter of if one party will get rid of the parliamentary maneuver, but only a matter of when.

“As recently as even a couple years ago, if you had asked me, ‘Should we get rid of it?’ I would have said ‘no,’ because it slows down the growth of government,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a meeting with the Washington Examiner in his Senate offices. “That is no longer my view.”