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The U.S. Senator from Oregon who is leading the fight to restore the talking filibuster explains how changing just one rule could save our democracy If we want to fix what ails America, we have to fix the Senate. And if we want to fix the Senate, we must fix the broken filibuster. Now, in a compelling and powerfully argued little book, Senator Jeff Merkley offers a concise and eye-opening history of how the present-day version of the filibuster has crippled the self-styled "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" with paralyzing gridlock, and makes the surprising case that restoring the old-style filibuster may just be our democracy's path back from the brink. Once, Senators who objected to passing a bill waged a defiant filibuster, in the spirit of fictional Senator Smith who talked until he collapsed in order to block a corrupt railroad deal in the classic 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Now, however, thanks to Senator Mitch McConnell's abuse of a fifty-year-old reform intended to make it easier for the Senate to pass legislation, the minority party can simply insist on sixty votes to pass most bills--and then refuse to provide them. Wildly popular bills languish, but ordinar

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Author

Merkley, Jeff, Zamore, Mike

Publisher

The New Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620977989

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, American Studies