Filibustered!: How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America

Filibustered!: How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America

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The U.S. Senator from Oregon who is leading the fight to restore the talking filibuster explains how changing just one rule could save our democracyIf we want to fix what ails America, we have to fix the Senate. And if we want to fix the Senate, we must fix the broken filibuster. In a compelling and powerfully argued book, Senator Jeff Merkley and his longtime chief of staff tell the insiders' story of how the Senate used to work and how the filibuster came to cripple the self-styled "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" with paralyzing gridlock. And they make the surprising case that restoring a modified version of the old-style, talking filibuster may just be our democracy's path back from the brink. For nearly two centuries, the Senate designed by the Founders served the purpose they envisioned: it was a deliberative legislative body where the nation's thorniest challenges were hashed out. Senators had the ability to speak at length and offer any manner of amendments to influence bil

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