Filibuster Reform Needed to Restore the Senate

Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe
BEFORE HE was elected to the US Senate in 2008, Jeff Merkley served as speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives "” and that experience has convinced him that things need to change in the upper chamber."One of the things about coming from a state legislature, where you hold daily debates, is that it puts in stark contrast the fact that the Senate has virtually no deliberations,'' said Merkley. "I hope to see a Senate someday that debates things again.''

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/05/filibuster_reform_needed_to_restore_the_senate_248268.html

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