# Should Procedural Filibustering Be Abolished?

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**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [February 20, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-procedural-filibustering-be-abolished/486789 "2009-02-20T23:51:44Z")
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### Author: ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-procedural-filibustering-be-abolished/486789/7 "2009-02-21T00:24:32Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> The filibuster rules should be left as they are. If the proposed legislation is controversial enough to provoke a filibuster, it ought to take a super-majority to pass it.

I’d agree if what existed was an actual, boldface-type inducing, **Filibuster**. What we get with the current rules is a “filibuster” – there need not be a high level of controversy at all to provoke one.

IMHO, the _procedural_ filibuster should be abolished.

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