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Julian G. Waller is a professorial lecturer in political science at George Washington University, a visiting scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and a non-resident fellow at the Illiberalism Studies Program.
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It’s the Sausage-Making
Legislative obstruction has its place in the democratic process, but we shouldn’t expect it to be pretty.