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Matt Salmon
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A former congressman's warning: Don't kill the filibuster
As Republicans push to end the filibuster, a former GOP congressman urges restraint — and offers a lesson from history.
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Don Henninger
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Why I stay in the arena
I’ve spent more than three decades in Arizona’s public life — most of it in media, where the job is to observe, analyze, and, at times, amplify the noise. For a long time, that felt like enough. You cover the story. You move on to the next one. But something changed. In recent years, especially around our elections, I found myself less interested in the daily headlines and more drawn to what was happening underneath them. The arguments were getting louder, the lines sharper, the trust thinner.
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Jered Scrivner
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