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Democratic Senators need to be careful what they filibuster. Absurdly, it only takes a majority vote for the Senate to change the rules to disallow filibusters.

Then again, the vote to change the rules to disallow filibusters could itself be filibustered.

But, the Senate, despite all that, could (on motion) declare the filibuster unconstitutional, and only require a simple majority vote to affirm it.

Man, our Congress is so broken.

Source: 2nd paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...

  Then again, the vote to change the rules to disallow filibusters could itself be filibustered.
That's what the Wikipedia article says, but I don't think that's correct. Otherwise, I think the Republicans would have filibustered Reid's invocation of the "Nuclear Option" that changed Senate rules to disallow filibusters on Federal judge appointments.
No, the Congressional Review Act provides for an expedited process that cannot be filibustered.
Ahh yes that's correct. Darn.