A One-Track Senate

THE Senate is badly gummed up. Major policy initiatives — health care reform and financial regulation, to name but two — are stalled in endless negotiations. There’s a big reason for this torpor: the filibuster. But there’s a solution: the filibus...

A clear exposition.

I was not aware of the multi track system. Stopping the checks might be a big enough hammer to get action. I would love to learn of some self interested reactionary chocking on his words.