Senate Democrats had an opportunity to get together and make the Senate a working, majority-rule-based chamber. They could have recently used the “Constitutional Option” at the start of this new Congress to rewrite the Senate rules to either eliminate the filibuster outright or at least make staging a filibuster more difficult. Yet, due to a [...]
After Failing to Change Senate Rules, Democrats Lose Right to Blame Mitch McConnell |
| By: Jon Walker Wednesday January 26, 2011 2:09 pm |



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