Many of my colleagues, as well as constitutional scholars, agree with me that a simple majority of the Senate can end de...
the Senate will remain a distinctive body and instead the Senate will become much closer to its ideal.
I think that the principle you have recognized is an important one, the principle with different presiding officers.
We need to come together on this for the good of the Senate and the good of the country.
there are way too many filibusters. That is your quote. The filibuster is being used too many times.
It is time to reform our rules, and as I have said many times, I will hold this view whether I am a member of the majori...
The rules get abused.
The intent of both of these proposals is to make the Senate more like the Senate and actually require debate about the t...
I think that is really the key issue here, is how we bring accountability back to the institution.
One of the arguments that is made is that if we change the Senate rules, somehow the Senate will become identical to the...
If your premise is correct, that that Congress in 1974 had no right to bind the Congress of today, then the whole reconc...
I hope that by reforming our rules, we can restore some of the collegiality and bipartisanship that our Founders intende...
What is truly wrong with our rules is that they have become entrenched against change, something our Founders never inte...
To me, today's hearing is not about examining the current use of the filibuster, but the abuse of the filibuster.
Over the past few months, during this series of hearings, we have discussed and debated example after example of how the...
I think one of the real problems is that with supermajorities required for just about everything, it does make it hard f...
legislative entrenchment has long been recognized as an illegal procedure.
Wouldn't you think if we had a tradition of adopting rules every 2 years, that would bring accountability to the system ...
