{"id":183548,"date":"2013-01-27T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/27\/reid-never-intended-to-reform-the-filibuster\/"},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T21:57:00","slug":"reid-never-intended-to-reform-the-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/27\/reid-never-intended-to-reform-the-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid Never Intended to Reform the filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/01\/24\/harry-reid-explains-why-he-killed-filibuster-reform\/\">he has gone native<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have come to a deal on filibuster reform. The deal is this: The filibuster will not be reformed. But the way the Senate moves to consider new legislation and most nominees will be.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI\u2019m not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold,\u201d Reid (D-Nev.) told me this morning, referring to the number of votes needed to halt a filibuster. \u201cWith the history of the Senate, we have to understand the Senate isn\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be like the House.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">What will be reformed is how the Senate moves to consider new legislation, the process by which all nominees \u2014 except Cabinet-level appointments and Supreme Court nominations \u2014 are considered, and the number of times the filibuster can be used against a conference report. You can read the full text of the compromise, which was sent out to Senate offices this morning, here (pdf).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But even those reforms don\u2019t go as far as they might. Take the changes to the motion to proceed, by which the Senate moves to consider a new bill. Reid seemed genuinely outraged over the way the process has bogged down in recent years.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have come to a deal on filibuster reform. The deal is this: The filibuster will not be reformed. But the way the Senate moves to consider new legislation and most nominees will be.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI\u2019m not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold,\u201d Reid (D-Nev.) told me this morning, referring to the number of votes needed to halt a filibuster. \u201cWith the history of the Senate, we have to understand the Senate isn\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be like the House.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">What will be reformed is how the Senate moves to consider new legislation, the process by which all nominees \u2014 except Cabinet-level appointments and Supreme Court nominations \u2014 are considered, and the number of times the filibuster can be used against a conference report. You can read the full text of the compromise, which was sent out to Senate offices this morning, here (pdf).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But even those reforms don\u2019t go as far as they might. Take the changes to the motion to proceed, by which the Senate moves to consider a new bill. Reid seemed genuinely outraged over the way the process has bogged down in recent years.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republicans have created a new reality in the Senate, and the older Democratic Senators do not realize that it&#8217;s not going back to the way it was before.<\/p>\n<p>We need new leadership in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is that he has gone native: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have come to a deal on filibuster reform. The deal is this: The filibuster will not be reformed. But the way the Senate moves to consider new legislation and most nominees will be.\u201cI\u2019m not personally, at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}