Again, these are very interesting ideas. I know you, Senator Bennet, have been pushing this for a long time.
at the essence of the Senate is the ability of the Minority to amend.
By filibustering the ability of the Senate to begin debate on the DISCLOSE Act, yesterday's minority denied the American...
the ability of a majority that has so many votes to run over the minority and not take their views into account.
Rather than accept the will of the voters who are rejecting the policies enacted by the 111th Congress, the senator from...
My proposal was not curtailing the right to require tough votes.
My resolution would actually require at least 41 Senators to show up and vote to block cloture, or else the legislation ...
We appreciate that they took time to appear before us to explain their proposals.
I do believe the Senate has the right to change its rules and I do believe the Senate has the right to say we will do it...
Only one really is horrible, and it is not in the Senate at either side.
But as I argue in my testimony, that then had unintended consequences because they did not think through how that would ...