The fillibuster has a complicated history. Cloture, the rule that says you can vote to stop a fillibuster with a certain majority, was only adopted in 1917 when Wilson got mad that a fillibuster killed a bill to arm merchant vessels against German submarines.
The fillibuster has a complicated history. Cloture, the rule that says you can vote to stop a fillibuster with a certain majority, was only adopted in 1917 when Wilson got mad that a fillibuster killed a bill to arm merchant vessels against German submarines.