Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought...

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52. To be completely honest, I believe the filibuster should either be eliminated or restrictions placed

on it limiting its use and I've felt that way for at least the last 2 decades. It was rarely used for most of the first 200 years of the country, then the use shot up significantly in the early 70's. Since then, the use has only continued to grow to the point that today opposition parties will filibuster just about everything. It was never meant to be used like that. If we could return to a situation where it is used relatively rarely like it was until about 50 years ago, then I'd be in favor of keeping it. However, I have no idea how to change it to make that work. If we can't severely limit its use, then I think it should be eliminated.

That said, and again being completely honest, I'm not going to complain about keeping it in place as long as it may help limit some damage the Republicans may try to inflict. I'm certainly not going to advocate for the Democrats to get rid of it when they aren't in charge. However, I actually expect the Republicans to eliminate it at some point when they view it as necessary to enact a priority (right now they don't need to do that because Trump is bypassing everything via executive orders, but I expect that will have to end at some point.) If and when the Republicans eliminate it, you won't hear me crying foul because I don't think it should really exist to begin with, plus I know that when the Democrats are back in charge they can actually enact a bunch of policies which enjoy major public support without needing 60 votes in the Senate.