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If you think Congress is in a bad mood today, take a look at how bad it got just before the Civil War.

The bizarre back story of the filibuster Robert E. May, opinion contributor © Getty Images The bizarre back story of the filibuster As Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) dance around whether or not the Senate should end the filibusters stranglehold over legislation, it is instructive to recall the terms linguistic roots and original meaning. Derived from a Dutch word for freebooter ( vrijbuiter), the word first appeared in English before the Civil War. I...