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Sen. Udall: Reforming the rules of the Senate to restore accountability and reduce gridlock

By Alliance Alert

Sen. Tom Udall writing in the Harvard Law & Policy Review: "The United States Senate has become a graveyard for good ideas?increasingly crippled by the partisan abuse of the institution?s own rules. Instead of being the chamber of Congress where legislation is carefully debated and serving as an 'additional impediment . . . against improper acts of legislation,' the modern Senate too often serves as a brick wall, stifling debate rather than promoting it and disrupting important legislation and nominations for purely partisan reasons. The use of obstructionist procedural tactics such as the filibuster and secret holds has expanded rapidly in recent Congresses, to the point where they are now everyday rather than extraordinary occurrences. Such obstructionist practices, when abused, make a mockery of our representative democracy."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).