Don’t break out the champagne quite yet: The Democrats’ supermajority is just as much a curse as it is a blessing.
Terence Samuel
Terence Samuel is a Prospect senior correspondent and the author of The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Follow him on Twitter.
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