{"id":17008,"date":"2013-01-22T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:00:55","slug":"reid%e2%80%99s-filibuster-reform-gets-it-half-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17008\/reid%e2%80%99s-filibuster-reform-gets-it-half-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid\u2019s Filibuster Reform Gets It Half Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/278419-reid-to-lay-out-plans-for-filibuster-reform\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a> is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is in the final stages of hammering out a filibuster reform package.\u00a0 Here are the two biggest changes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The agreement between Reid and McConnell is not expected to include the talking filibuster, which would require senators who want to block action on legislation to actually hold the floor and debate for hours on end.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Reid has begun to focus on a proposal to tweak the filibuster rule by requiring the minority party to muster 41 votes to stall a bill or nominee. Under current rules, the responsibility is on the majority to round up 60 votes to end a filibuster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say half right because I favor a talking filibuster and making the minority party (in this case the Republicans) come up with the votes necessary to trigger a filibuster.\u00a0 Putting people on the record isn\u2019t comfortable, but it is required to make the distinctions between the parties \u2013 and their ideologies \u2013 more publicly apparent.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, citizens need to know the well-reasoned, well-researched arguments for and against a proposed policy.\u00a0 Far from hurting the Republican minority, I think giving articulate conservatives like Ted Cruz (R-TX), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Rand Paul (R-KY) an opportunity to make their case will help educate the public about important issues.\u00a0 This in turn will spur a dialogue on the Right that will allow the movement to better understand itself so that it can better persuade the electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is in the final stages of hammering out a filibuster reform package.\u00a0 Here are the two biggest changes: The agreement between Reid and McConnell is not expected to include the talking filibuster, which would require senators who want to block action on legislation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,1972,518,77,1447,178],"class_list":["post-17008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-debate","tag-filibuster","tag-harry-reid","tag-reform","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17011,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions\/17011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}