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		lumost on April 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software firms across US facing tax bills that thr... You could have a single senator block the entire senate from delivering anything. The only back stop on this is whether a party would kick out a miss behaving senator or primary them.

lazide on April 19, 2023 [–]

Eh kinda - it’s that way because everyone wants the rules to be that way.

A large enough majority can just change the rules. It isn’t that hard to actually do.

But they prefer it this way.

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