Manchin is suggesting a solution that is pretty good. This was one of my comments from last week which is still relevant.
In It's Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, they suggest several ways to reform the filibuster. Eliminating the filibuster except for the filibuster on the bill itself would save time and allow the majority leader to bring a bill to the floor without a monition to proceed. Mann and Ornstein argue that the minority should provide 41 votes to continue the debate or change the number of votes needed to achieve cloture to 60% of members who are present and voting.
Both of those ideas are pretty good. I also like the idea of a cloture vote that gets a lower threshold every day, so that a minority can only obstruct for ten days. If the justification for the filibuster is to promote debate, surely ten days is long enough for every Senator to be heard.
Hi Elliott,
Manchin is suggesting a solution that is pretty good. This was one of my comments from last week which is still relevant.
In It's Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, they suggest several ways to reform the filibuster. Eliminating the filibuster except for the filibuster on the bill itself would save time and allow the majority leader to bring a bill to the floor without a monition to proceed. Mann and Ornstein argue that the minority should provide 41 votes to continue the debate or change the number of votes needed to achieve cloture to 60% of members who are present and voting.
-Elliot
Elliot,
Both of those ideas are pretty good. I also like the idea of a cloture vote that gets a lower threshold every day, so that a minority can only obstruct for ten days. If the justification for the filibuster is to promote debate, surely ten days is long enough for every Senator to be heard.
There are also some alternative prescription here: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/181/
Elliott