Abolish the Senate filibuster

[Politruk]

The filibuster isn't in the Constitution or anything -- it is only a procedural rule of the Senate. What is it good for, other than obstruction? Most of its uses in history have been disgraceful, e.g., blocking civil rights legislation.

I have always -- no matter which party held a Senate majority at the moment -- consistently held the position that the filibuster should be abolished.

 

[Politruk]

Remember, the filibuster is not part of "checks and balances" as the FFs conceived them. It is simply an unintended result of the "unlimited debate" rule, which both houses of Congress had in the beginning -- the House of Representatives dropped it when its membership grew large enough to make it unwieldy.

 

[Bray123]

If a new political system were being established the invention of a filibuster would be met by astonishment on all sides.