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In response to "This is an interesting graph that was included in the Wonkblog email. Notice the spike in cloture votes? -- (link)" by spamlet

Moderate increase followed by massive increase. Yes, there was an increase during those years and you can point to that as the beginning.

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Nov 22 '13, 08:52

But it got ramped up exponentially. There's tit for tat and then there's this. I would argue that the republicans have already exercised the nuclear option by blocking everything. There comes a point where it's ridiculous. I'd also note the previous spike during the Clinton years. So there's that.

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Moderate increase followed by massive increase. Yes, there was an increase during those years and you can point to that as the beginning.

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