Washington Dysfunction’s Cure Is in Sight: Michael Waldman
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Set your watches to noon on Jan. 5. That’s the first minute of the first hour of the first day of the new congressional session. And that is when the U.S. Senate can change its rules by simple majority, 51 votes, rather the 67 needed otherwise.
A large group of Democratic senators, frustrated by the chamber’s delay and obstruction, are preparing to use that brief window to challenge the filibuster. It should get interesting.