[EL] Senate rules

[James Grimaldi]

Filibuster Q&A: Why It Has Vexed the Senate, and How Lawmakers Could Change
It
President Lincoln, civil-rights bills, World War I and ‘Green Eggs and Ham’
feature in history of often contentious legislative maneuver
https://www.wsj.com/articles/q-a-why-the-filibuster-has-vexed-the-senate-and-how-lawmakers-could-change-it-11598965200?st=a52d6kztaqc8gh5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:14 PM John Tanner <john.k.tanner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Article 1, section 3
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jan 25, 2021, at 11:55 AM, Gardner, Jim <jgard at buffalo.edu> wrote:
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> Sorry if this has been discussed before, but is there any reason why the
> Senate couldn’t adopt a cloture rule ending a filibuster upon the vote of
> any number of senators representing, say, a minimum of 40% of the U.S.
> population?  For that matter, is there a reason the Senate couldn’t adopt a
> rule providing that no legislation will be deemed approved except upon the
> vote of a number of senators representing more than 50% of the population?
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> Jim
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> James A. Gardner
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