WaPo reports. The Fix: Why Filibuster Reform Didn’t Happen Senator Reid tells Ezra Klein: “I’m not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold,” Reid (D-Nev.) told me this morning, referring to the number of… Continue reading

Roll Call: “Democratic senators favoring the most robust overhaul of the chamber’s filibuster rules do not have the votes to enact a ‘talking filibuster,’ even with a simple majority, according to the top Democratic vote-counter.’

Smart Jonathan Bernstein Post-Partisan blog post: “But overall, it’s really easy for me to imagine a large group of Republican senators loudly opposing Senate reform while privately wishing that Democrats will go nuclear. Which means that Democrats who really want… Continue reading

The Hill: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will present colleagues with options for reforming the Senate’s filibuster rules in a Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday. Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) are close to reaching a deal… Continue reading

Important piece in The New Yorker. Klein quotes Tom Mann on why a half-measured reform would be worse than no reform: “You won’t have fixed the Senate. But you will have further poisoned the environment.” A timely article, as filibuster… Continue reading

Josh Chafetz has posted this draft on SSRN (Notre Dame Law Review).  Here is the abstract: Assertions that our legislative process is gridlocked — perhaps even “hopelessly” so — are endemic. So many more of our problems would be fixed,… Continue reading