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Why Senate Democrats who signed Susan Collins' pro-filibuster letter in 2017 want to get rid of it now
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Most Senate Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster, after most of them fought for its preservation less than five years ago.
"And the fact that the filibuster is being used to prevent voting protections from being enacted into law," she told Fox News. "I think that is a total misuse of power."
The Collins-Coons letter came just three months into former President Donald Trump's administration, when Republicans held the White House and majorities in the House and the Senate. Trump pushed Republicans to ditch the filibuster, which would have made it much easier for them to pass their agenda.
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