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Does this plan make sense? v2 (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you address gerrymandering, the Senate/House divide is less important (but still important).

Keep the Senate. Make filibusters back into what they were intended as, unlimited debate. You have to have someone in the chamber talking the entire time. The filibuster was intended to allow everyone to talk. It was not intended to hold up bills forever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Make filibusters back into what they were intended as, unlimited debate.

hard, throbbing agree there. this thing where one congressmonster sends an email that says "I'm gonna filibuster this" and then everyone gets the rest of the day off for cocktails and footrubs is a gross perversion of what it was intended for.