I believe the Constitution provides a solution to this problem.
I do not see that the leverage of another filibuster, which is still going to require 60 votes when you get to the Bill ...
What does a filibuster really accomplish other than delay and, in some cases, defeat of a nomination?
I worry about the Senate as an institution, but then I worry, if the Senate is not working as an institution, then we ar...
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.
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 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.
We should not limit our reform efforts to the filibuster, but look at all the rules.
the threat of filibusters has become an almost daily fact of life in the Senate.
one Congress cannot bind a subsequent Congress.
the filibuster used to be the exception to the rule. In today's Senate, it is becoming a straitjacket.
I think that we need to adjust the rules, not to become the House, but to become a restored, effective Senate with the p...
This Congress will go down in history as probably one of the more productive Congresses in generations.
